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22 August 2020 – First International Apostasy Day

20th August 2020

Arabic, Bangla, Dhivehi, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Malay, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish and Urdu translations below. On 22nd August, thousands participated in Apostasy Day, including by taking selfies with the hashtag #HandsUpforApostasyDay #ApostasyDay #ApostasyNotACrime. Overall, 83,000…

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Conflating face masks with burqas is an an act of cultural assassination

Conflating face masks with burqas is an an act of cultural assassination, sister-hood, 1 July 2020 By Marieme Helie Lucas and Maryam Namazie Some people, including Human Rights Watch’s Director Ken Roth and politicians like Rabina Khan have…

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SBS writes to the Law Commission about marriage law and the rights of minority women

Southall Black Sisters (SBS), with support from the One Law For All campaign, recently intervened in the Court of Appeal case of Akhter v Khan to outline our concerns about the current law on marriage and…

Court of Appeal ruling will force women to discriminatory Sharia courts

14th February 2020

Court of Appeal rules that women who are unable to register their marriage in accordance with the law are not entitled to financial remedies on the break-up of their marriage. On the 13th…

“On The Side Of Those Who Fight For Freedom”

16th January 2020

The below was first published on Centre for Women's Justice website written by Maryam Namazie, joint prize winner of the Emma Humphrey’s Memorial Prize 2019. I started Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One…

Muriel Seltman: On the side of those who fight for freedom

13th December 2019

Muriel Seltman (27 March 1927 – 2 December 2019) was a mathematician, a writer, an activist and comrade in arms. She joined campaigns in support of One Law for All against Sharia and…

The hijab: “preventing common impositions”

27th November 2019

The hijab: “preventing common impositions” was published in Workers Liberty Solidarity in defence of banning child veiling on 27 November 2019. Maryam Namazie is an activist with the Council of Ex-Muslims and other secularist…

Does religion have a privileged status in the UK?

20th November 2019

By Rahila Gupta CNN, Wed November 20, 2019 Editor's Note: Rahila Gupta is an author and journalist. She has written several books, including "Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong" and "Enslaved: The…

Maryam Namazie and Afsana Lachaux, Joint Winners of 2019 Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize

12th November 2019

Maryam Namazie and Afsana Lachaux were joint winners of the 2019 Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for their campaigning work in support of women under Sharia laws. The award recognised the links with Sharia…

Significant case on women’s rights following break up of marriage at the Court of Appeal

6th November 2019

PRESS RELEASE 6 November 2019 On 13/14 November Southall Black Sisters (SBS) is intervening in an important case (Akhter v Khan) with far-reaching implications for minority women’s rights. As part of the One Law for All…

2019 Shortlist Announced, Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize, 3 October 2019

3rd October 2019

2019 Shortlist Announced, Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize, 3 October 2019 We have a fantastic shortlist for the inaugural joint Emma Humphreys and Centre for Women’s Justice awards. Please join us in congratulating all our…

De Balie #CelebratingDissent Festival was an Astounding Success

17th September 2019

The epic ‘Celebrating Dissent’ Festival took place between 30 August -1 September in Amsterdam, a collaboration between the prestigious art and debate institute De Balie and Maryam Namazie. Consisting of a mixture of intense,…