This is the amended text of a speech given by me at the International Conference on Science for Choice, held in Split, Croatia, on 27 September 2025. I spoke in place of Ibtissame Betty…
This is the slightly amended text of a speech given on 14 September 2025 at a commemorative event for Mahsa Jina Amini in London organised by Jiyan Women’s Assembly. it was first published…
Ex-Muslims International denounces the detention of Moroccan feminist, human rights defender, and ex-Muslim activist Ibtissam “Betty” Lachgar for wearing a T-shirt proclaiming, “Allah is lesbian.”
Betty is a key figure in the global ex-Muslim…
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All Joint Submission to Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim Hatred Definition Working Group
15 July 2025
1. Introduction
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB), founded in 2007, and One Law for…
PRESS STATEMENT
For Immediate Release
3 March 2025
Date: Thursday 6 March 2025
Time: 14:00 (for a 14:30 start) – 17:00
Venue: Committee Room 4A, Houses of Parliament, London
[London] – In the lead-up to International Women’s Day, a…
Joint submission to the Women and Equalities Committee on Gendered Islamophobia
Ahead of the Women and Equalities Committee’s (WEC) one off session around Gendered Islamophobia on Wednesday, 15th January 2025, Southall Black Sisters (SBS) along…
Read full piece in The Freethinker: Feminism and religion are incompatible, 19 November 2024
This is an edited version of Maryam Namazie’s contribution to a Cambridge Union debate: ‘This House Believes Feminism is…
We, the undersigned, stand in utter condemnation of the murderous violence against girls in Southport and mourn the lives lost and harmed by violence against women and girls in all its forms.
We are…
The world is getting its first Sikh court in London. That’s a threat to women’s rights, Guardian Comment is Free, 31 May 2024
With the UK judicial system cut to breaking point, conservative religious…
The Sikh Court: Parallel Justice Systems are a Danger to Women
We are alarmed by the establishment of a Sikh Court in the UK.
Spokespeople for The Sikh Court describe it as an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism…
The announcement of the world’s first Sikh ‘Court’ in London in April 2024 – and due to open for business on 1 June 2024 – demands our urgent attention.
For many years, some of…
2008
The One Law for All Campaign was launched on 10 December 2008, International Human Rights Day, to call on the UK Government to recognise that Sharia and religious courts are arbitrary and discriminatory…