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WomenNovember 16th 2003 REGULATION OF FEMALE DRESSING:Another outright discrimination against womenWithin the context of the socio-economic and political realities of Nigeria today, the Ogun State House of Assembly’s intention to pass a bill to regulate female dressing is an unnecessary diversion and an act of escapism. It will not achieve the objectives for which it is proposed. 26th September 2003 PRESS STATEMENTAMINA LAWAL'S ACQUITTAL:A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT; BUT REPEAL SHARIA CRIMINAL CODE AND ALL DEHUMANISING LAWSThe Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the decision of the Sharia Appeal Court in Katsina State to quash the death sentence, by stoning, earlier passed by a lower sharia court on Mrs. Amina Lawal for allegedly committing adultery. March 1st 2003 A BRIEF ANALYSIS ON THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN NIGERIA TODAY Titi Salaam, Secretary, Women's Section, DSMWomen constitute 49% of the total population in Nigeria, according to the controversial 1991 census. As it obtains in every capitalist society, as a rule, women are marginalised and oppressed in Nigeria. 27 February 2002 SET HER FREE NOW!
The Women Section of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), the Nigerian section of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), calls for the quashing of the death sentence by stoning passed by a Shariah Court in Gwadabawa, Sokoto State, Nigeria, on Mrs. Safiyat Hussain, a 35 year old woman and nursing mother, allegedly for committing adultery. Dec 2002 Miss World: Debasing Women For Profit Sake On 7th December, Nigeria will host the Miss World "beauty" pageant in Abuja, the federal capital. Private interests as well as the government are investing millions of dollars in this programme. Among the leading personalities behind it is the wife of the president herself, Chief (Mrs) Stella Obasanjo.
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