Sudan trouser ruling violates international law: U.N.

2009/09/08 06:48:58 @Reuters: International News

GENEVA (Reuters) - Sudan's conviction of a woman for indecency for wearing trousers violates international law and is emblematic of wider gender discrimination in the Islamic country, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=8JaNgPiLMWQ:uRpFTqJQd-I:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=8JaNgPiLMWQ:uRpFTqJQd-I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=8JaNgPiLMWQ:uRpFTqJQd-I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=8JaNgPiLMWQ:uRpFTqJQd-I:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=8JaNgPiLMWQ:uRpFTqJQd-I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/8JaNgPiLMWQ" height="1" width="1"/
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