Written evidence submitted to Home Affairs Select Committee by Southall Black Sisters, the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, Centre for Secular Space, One Law for All, British Muslims for Secular Democracy and…
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain is pleased to announce that its spokesperson Maryam Namazie was awarded the 2016 International Secularism (Laicite) Prize from the Comité Laïcité République in Paris on 2 November.
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7 November Public Seminar on "Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice"
You are invited to a public seminar on "Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice" on 7th November 2016,…
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I wanted to write and give you an update of the work of One Law for All.
Our new Spokesperson
I'm really pleased to announce that Gina Khan, a long-time women's rights campaigner,…
Sharia Review Secretariat
Dear Mona Siddqui
RE: Independent Review into Sharia Law
Thank you for your invitation to give evidence to the Sharia review.
We will not be able to accept your invitation. We are boycotting the…
An unprecedented number of women’s rights campaigners and organisations from Britain and internationally recently submitted a letter to Theresa May, the then Home Secretary raising serious concerns about the government’s ‘independent review’ into…
Elham Manea's new book "Women and Sharia Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK" (I. B. Tauris, May 2016) provides considerable evidence to show how Sharia courts violate the fundamental principles…
Updated 7 December 2016
The accommodation of arbitration systems to govern private and family matters had led, arguably, to the greatest human rights violations of minority women in the UK.
Personal testimonies below aim to highlight…
4 July 2016
Today, an unprecedented number of women's rights campaigners and organisations from Britain and internationally have submitted a letter to the Home Secretary raising serious concerns about the government's 'independent review' into…
For more information on the open letter, please contact Pragna Patel (Southall Black Sisters), Gina Khan and Maryam Namazie (One Law for All) and Gita Sahgal (Centre for Secular Space). Contact details below.
As…
Updated 4 July 2016
The accommodation of arbitration systems to govern private and family matters had led, arguably, to the greatest human rights violations of minority women in the UK.
The following two Islamic scholars…
Below is my speech at Reason Rally 2016 on 4 June 2016 in Washington DC.
I'm very happy to be here. Thanks to the organisers for this wonderful event. Thanks to all of you…