NGO Support

2004 Campaign

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2001 Campaign

Statements issued by NGOs and Individual letters of support

[Please note that statements in Arabic could only be viewed with an Arabic browser.]

• Amnesty International Index MDE /News Flash: Egypt: Feminist writer threatened by forced divorce for comments on Islam. July 25, 01.

• Support from AHRIMAN Publishing House, Germany
• Support letter from Duke University
• Support Letter from France
• OMCT Follow-Up letter.
• Letter from Spain, Committee for the Solidarity with Nawal
• Letter from the California American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
• Letter from Turkey.
• 105 signatures from the UK on an independent letter.
• Membres du Parlement Européen (85)
• 101 Additional Signatories to the AMEWS Letter on Behalf of Nawal Elsaadawi, to-date June 2, 2001.
• Letter of Support from Turkey.
• COMITE SOLIDARIDAD CON NAWAL AL-SA'DAWI Barcelona CATALUNYA, SPAIN [in Spanish]
• Letter of the Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought. [in Arabic]
• AMEWS letter sent May 25, 2001. Approximately 4,201 individuals are represented in this letter.
• Additional signatures on the AMEWS letter as of May 24, 2001.
• AMEWS letter until May 20, 2001..
• Letter from Prof. Guenter Meyer, President of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) and President of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), regarding further support for the AMEWS letter.
• Navreme Knowledge Development
• Palestinian Organizations' statement. [in Arabic]
• Aisha statement [in Arabic]
• Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitiation of Torture Victims [in Arabic]
• Statement of the Solidarity Center
• Tunisian Association for Democratic Women (ATFD)
• SOS SEXISME (France)
• L'OBSERVATOIRE [French]
• The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders [English]
• Letter by a group of intellectuals in France[in French]
• International PEN Women Writers Committee
• Letter signed by Arab Women's Court, The Lebanese Council to Resist
  Violence Against Women, Association of Arab-American University Graduates
  Committee for Human Rights, Association for Middle Eastern Women's Studies
  Women Living Under Muslim Laws, The Palestinian Democratic Union
  The Federation of Women's Action, Swedish PEN, All members of The European
  Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) & many others
• Sisterhood is Global Institute
• Women Living Under Muslim Laws
• Organisation Contre La Torture (OMCT)