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In this issue, We! features Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia: An Unsung (R)evolution by Maznah Mohamad, Cecilia Ng, and tan beng hui, which is published by Routledge as part of its Malaysian Studies Series.

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Female NGO workers are increasingly experiencing fundamentalism-related harassment and violent attacks in northwest Pakistan. The attacks show a trend of repression focused on women whose NGOs are working on women's empowerment, in an environment of increasing religious control.

The most recent case reported is the murder of two schoolteachers in the Khawaga Serai, in the tribal administrative area of Orakzai Agency in northwest Pakistan on 16 June 2006. The women were employed by the Barani Area Development Project, an organisation which conducts vocational training in poor rural communities in the region. Umme Salma and her colleague Saida Bibi were conducting their training in the Government Girls School, and were living in the schoolhouse together with Salma's two children. All four were gunned down while they were asleep in the night, and then chopped into pieces by their murderers.

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On Sunday July 2, the High-level Panel on Coherence held a day-long consultation with over 50 civil society representatives from around the world in Geneva, Switzerland. This was a consultation on cross cutting themes of gender equality, human rights and sustainable development/environment.

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In a disturbing repetition of the violent police dispersal during the International Womens Day celebration, the Iranian police once again beat hundreds of womens rights activists gathered in a peaceful assembly in Tehran on June 12.

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Proposed amendments to Malaysias penal code concerning provisions on rape have drawn contradictory reactions from various national groups. The amendments seek to

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Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development has announced that it has a new regional coordinator, Lynnsay Rongokea Francis, starting 1 July 2006. She takes the place of Titi Soentoro. Prior to her appointment as Regional Coordinator, Ms. Francis was involved with advocacy and lobbying for political reform in the Cook Islands and formed the Group for Political Change (GPC) in 2002. She has also has  been a member of APWLD Steering Committee from 2000-2003.