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…
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…
Gender Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity
Date and Time: 6 March, 14:00 for a 14:30 start. The event ends at 17:00.
Venue: Committee Room 4a, Houses of Parliament
As we prepare to mark International Women’s Day,…
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…
On #HumanRightsDay2024 we rage against #SexApartheid #GenderApartheid in #Iran #Afghanistan
Segregation based on sex like that based on race is humiliating.
It’s dehumanising.
It kills.
It is a crime against humanity.
#SexApartheidKills
#SexApartheidHumiliates
*"Lifting the Veil on Violence Against Women Worldwide"*
On November 24, 100 FEMEN activists from different countries, including One Law for All's Spokesperson Maryam Namazie and Resident Artist Victoria Gugenheim, make an uncompromising…
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…
On 2 November, Ahoo, a female student from Tehran’s Science and Research University removed her clothes on campus in protest to being harassed by security forces over mandatory hijab rules. She was violently…
In Solidarity with Ahoo Daryaei
در همبستگی با آهو دریایی
8 Nov, 3:30-4:30pm
Piccadilly Circus, London
On 2 November, a female student from Tehran's Science and Research University (apparently called Ahoo Daryaei) removed her clothes on campus…
Ex-Muslims are linked only in the movement for the rights to freedom of conscience, apostasy and blasphemy. An ex-Muslim can be progressive or reactionary, misogynist or feminist, anti-racist or racist… just as any…