31.   As public anger boils over the incident, President Fidel Ramos has banned other women from going to Singapore and threatened to break ties altogether.

32.   Banning young women from having sex is a long-standing Swaziland tradition that is enforced intermittently.

33.   Because women are banned from mingling with men in this strict Muslim nation, work opportunities for women are severely limited.

34.   Costa Rican lawmakers have approved a motion to ban unmarried women from undergoing artificial insemination.

35.   Earlier, the Knesset had given into demands by religious leaders and banned women from singing because religious men said it would be offensive to them.

36.   He railed against the Taliban for banning women from work and school.

37.   He criticized Taliban leaders for banning women from jobs and schools as part of their version of Islamic law.

38.   He said it is wrong to ban women from going topless but not men.

39.   Her passport was confiscated and, under a regime that banned women from singing or dancing before audiences that included men, she stopped her public performances.

40.   Imposing their strict version of Islam, Taliban leaders banned women from schools and most work places, saying the mixing of men and women leads to immorality.