Fl{ml GEI{:\I\"I;\ act saves the women from shame, crowd of 500. During the celebration \\ 0\1 F .... 's Boo" O"i( \ I{S physical violence, and from possible Justice Minister Bahij Tabbara declared Twenty-three feminist writers were expUlsion from the community. that he had presented the cabinet with a awarded the first "Women's Book According to some researchers many draft law to render crimes of honor Oscars" in October this year at the immigrant groups insist a woman must punishable by law. His decision to world's biggest book fair in Germany. be a virgin when she marries. "If the present the draft law was a token of An International panel consisting of bride cannot show her bloody sheet respect for Moghaizel. "I am convinced women from seven countries chose non­ after the wedding night, her family may that presenting the law at this time in fiction books that have "changed the exact revenge in the form of bloody particular expresses the respect and world over the past 25 years." Among reprisals and banishment of the bride." appreciation we all feel to the efforts the winners were Kate Millet's Sexual "Because of these far reaching Laure Moghaizel made with other Politics, Gloria Steinem's Outrageous consequences, many gynaecologists in activists to support women's rights as Acts and Everyday Rebellions and the Netherlands are willing to inseperable from human rights." Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. reconstruct the hymens of adolescent According to Tabbara, "Giving amnesty (\Is HaKa •.iIl(, girls' who are no longer virgins but who to a person who committed a crime of Jalluary/February 19981'.17) wish to appear so." honor only encourages people to take (Daily Stllr, ,HOliday, the law into their own hands - an act FRml Tl RKE\ February 9, 1998 p. J(J) which no longer coincides with the "IR(;J"Iln TI'SI""i \ .... 1) Sll('IDJ. legal system adopted in Lebanon." Recent suicide attempts over forced FRO\I LEH.\:\O:\ Article 562 of the penal code currently virginity examinations by five Turkish PI..\ "I;S 1'0 RE:--.iDER HO:"lOI{ pardons a man if he surprises his wife, girls who were ordered by the director CI{I\U.S Pl ,\ISH.\BI E B\ L.\\\ one of his relatives, descendants or a of their state foster home to undergo the In commemoration of the late Laure sister practicing adultry or pre-marital test after returning late to their Moghaizel, Lebanese lawyer and intercourse and kills or wounds one of dormitories one night has sparked human rights activist, the Lebanese the two without premediation. public outcry. The girls aged 12 to 16 Women's Council organized a (Daily Slar, Saturday, took rat poison and then jumped into a conference which was attended by a .\larch 7, 19981'.3) water tank rather than face the tests. Yet, they survived and the virginity tests were carried out in their hospital beds. Goo d IFRO\I AR \Ol :\1) TilE \\ ORl I) Women's rights activists and human I i V e S I \l RF l\l()(;tl \I/FI RE('O(;"I;lll J) In 1\1s. M \G \ZIl\jF rights activists are infuriated by such mandated medical examinations. Eugenie Anderson, 87, Democratic organizer and first U.S. woman ambassador Human rights Minister HikInet Sami Nora Beloff, 78, British journalist, first woman political correspondent at the Turk is currently leading a campaign to observer ban such tests, except in court cases Toni Carabillo, 71, U.S. cofounder of the Feminist Majority and NOW leader involving sex crimes. Gail Davis, 71 , U.S. actor who played Annie Oakley, trailblazing television cowgirl (I)aily Star, Thursday, Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, humanitarian Jalluary 29, 11)98 p.5) Jane Warner Dick, 91, early advocate for the rights of immigrants and the mentally ill in the U.S. FRO\l TIlE NE rIfERI \ "I;I>S Nancy Dickerson, 70, pioneering U.S. television reporter Hy\lF .... OROPH\ OR Muriel McQueen Fergusson, 97, first woman speaker of the Canadian Senate, RH'ONSTRl CTIl\j(; VIR(;J!'I.rn crusader for women's rights According to a report which featured in Emily Hahn, 92, U.S. author and adventurer the British Medical Journal, doctors in Laure Moghaizel, 68, Lebanese lawyer and feminist activist the Netherlands are reconstructing the Mumeo Oku, 101 , Japanese suffragist and consumer rights advocate hymens of young women who visit their Mina Rees, 95 , U.S. mathematician and first woman president of the American clinics terrified of the consequences in Association for the Advancement of Science store when they fail to prove themselves Baroness Seear, 83, British politician and advocate for employed women virgins when they marry. Such an issue Betty Shabazz, 61, scholar, activist, and African American community leader raises ethical considerations for Dutch Mary Louise Smith, 82, U.S. Republican advocate for women's and gay rights doctors who are ready to operate even Brigadier Dame Mary Tyrwhitt, 93, founder of the Women's Royal Army Corps in though there is no medical need for Britain treatment and in the knowledge that Annie Wauneka, 87, Navajo medical crusader and first female legislator of the they are effectively conspiring with the Navajo Nation women to deceive a spouse and his Nancy Woodhull, 52, U.S. activist-journalist family. The justification is that such an (Ms Magazine January/February 1998 p. 21) 9 AI-Roldo VUlllllll' X\ I\Jlh X() - XI \\lIllcrISplill" Il)l)X .