Events

2024

29 November-1 December 2024, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Maryam will be speaking at Giornate della laicita festival.

30-31 May 2025, London
Maryam Namazie will speak at Women Create! The world’s first ever conference exclusively for cancelled female and feminist artists from across the political spectrum. More information.

PAST EVENTS

8-9 December 2023, Paris

Celebrating Laicite Conference Organised by Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Laiques sans Frontieres. Invitation only at City Hall. More information here.

13-15 October, Glasgow
FiLiA conference

25 September 2023, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
Changing Minds in Changing Times with AC Grayling, Lawrence Krauss and Maryam Namazie. For tickets, click here.

16 September, London
Sing4Freedom, Piccadilly Circus, 1130-1pm, organised by One Law for All and FiLiA

22 August 2023, London
Apostasy Day

15 August 2023, CEMB London Meet-Up
Doodling with Maryam Namazie for Apostasy Day

1 July 2023, Pride in London
CEMB will be marching in Pride in London.

9 June 2023, Durham Union, 8pm
Maryam Namazie will debate against “This House Believes Islam is Compatible With Human Rights.” More information here.

29 April 2023, London
One Law for All and FiLiA will be organising #Dance4Freedom on International Day of Dance in solidarity with the #WomansRevolution in #Iran on 29 April, 3-5pm in London. Those who are unable to join us at Piccadilly Circus, can send videos of their solidarity protest dance. This follows the successful #Hair4Freedom protest.

20 April 2023, Berlin
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at WZB, Berlin Social Science Centre on Women’s rights and Islam: Inherent oxymoron or possible harmony? More details here.

31 March-1 April, Warsaw
Atheism Day in Poland

30 March, 4-6pm Online
Why Free Speech? Feminist Dissent Panel Discussion. Get your free tickets here.

26 March, Leicester, 6:30pm-8pm
Maryam Namazie to speak at Leicester Secular Society on Woman, Life, Freedom

25 March 2023, Online, 7pm
Faithless Hijabi Event

11 March 2023, Bristol
Maryam will be speaking at Bristol Women’s Voice Conference and Rally. More information here.

10 March 2023, London, 14:45-15:15
Women, Life, Freedom Group pop-up at the WOW London Festival
Level 4 Blue Lobby

8 March 2023, London, 6-10pm
On International Women’s Day, we pay homage to and celebrate ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ and the women’s revolution in Iran. An evening of discussion, art, music, dance, film and performances. Sponsored by One Law for All and Woman, Life, Freedom Charter. Get Tickets Here. No tickets will be sold at door.

7 March 2023, 3:00pm-6:00pm (UK Time)
Online rally to the Women’s Revolution on International Women’s Day, In Persian
Women’s rights activists from Iran and Afghanistan will come together to evaluate the achievements of the woman, life, freedom revolution and examine strategies for unity, including via the Woman, Life, Freedom Charter, in overthrowing the Islamic regime of Iran and heralding a new dawn. For more information, contact Homa Arjomand at homawpi@sympatico.ca and Maryam Namazie at maryamnamazie@gmail.com.

6 March 2023, York University Law School, 1-3pm
IWD event, The Iranian Feminist Revolution: Showing Solidarity.

5 March 2023, Worthing Labour Hall, Noon
IWD Event

25 February 2023, Housmans Bookshop, London, 7-9pm
Poetry Night in Persian and English in solidarity with Woman, Life, Freedom. For more information, contact Fariborz Pooya, fariborz_pooya@yahoo.co.uk.

24 February 2023, 4-5pm
Join One Law for All and FiLiA to throw our #Hair4Freedom on the embassy of a regime that kills women and girls for a few strands of hair.

18 February 2023, Amsterdam, 8pm
De Balie Freedom Lecture: Iranian Resistance.

8 February, London
4-5pm, Rally organised by Solidarity with the Iranian Workers’ Movement in support of revolutionary uprising and workers’ movement in Iran
5-7pm, Meeting at Houses of Parliament following rally.

DAY OF ACTION TO #FREESOHEIL

4 February 2023, Global

London, 5:30-6:30pm, Russell Square

40 atheist, ex-Muslim and secularist organisations that have taken on Soheil Arabi’s political sponsorship are calling for a day of action on International Day of Human Fraternity. Join us in highlighting his case and bringing pressure to secure his release. The action is organised by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All.

4 February 2023, UCL Women’s Liberation and WPUK 2023 conference, London
11:30-13:00pm, Maryam will join “The global history of women’s access to education” panel
2:30-4:00pm, Maryam Namazie and Rahila Gupta will lead a workshop: “Bringing the Revolution Home: Rojava and Iran”
Tickets are on sale here.

1 February 2023, Global #BodyRiot on ‘World Hijab Day’
This is a global day of action to bare breasts and bras as a challenge to World Hijab Day, a day that promotes the erasure and policing of women’s bodies. The joint action has been called for by One Law for All and FEMEN in solidarity with women and girls in Iran being killed for disobeying compulsory veiling rules. ‘My Body, My Choice,’ ‘You are a pervert; I am a free woman.’ To join London protest, contact maryamnamazie@gmail.com.

29 January 2023, 2pm, London, Marylebone Theatre
London in solidarity with Woman, Life, Freedom. An afternoon of talks, music and art.  Tickets can be found here.

25 January 2023, 3:15pm, London
Maryam Namazie’s speaks to a  Inclusion, Ethics and Social Justice students at Roehampton University on the women’s revolution in Iran and its links to social justice struggles

24 January 2023, London, 12-1pm
Maryam Namazie speaks to students at a school for girls on Iran’s women’s revolution

24 January 2023, London, 4:00-5:00pm
One Law for All action at Unicef against killing of children by Islamic regime of Iran on International Day of Education. #EducationNotExecution. اعتراض به یونیسف و علیه‌ کشته شدن کودکان توسط رژیم اسلامی ایران در روز جهانی آموزش. آموزش، نه اعدام

18 January 2023, 3:15pm, London – Not taking place due to support for strike action
Maryam Namazie’s speaks to a  Inclusion, Ethics and Social Justice students at Roehampton University on the women’s revolution in Iran and its links to social justice struggles.

24 December 2022, Piccadilly Circus, 1pm
Woman, Life, Freedom drumming and singing group since protest songs in support of Iran’s revolution. All welcome to join in.

17 December, 1-2pm, Piccadilly Circus
One Law for All is organising a protest dance against executions and in solidarity with the women’s revolution in Iran. More information here.

4 December 2022, 6pm Athens time online
Maryam Namazie joins a discussion on Iran’s women’s revolution organised by the Greek Transfeminist collective “Kamia Anohi” (No Tolerance)

28 November 2022, 6-8pm, Parliament
International Federation of Iraqi Refugees organised meeting in Parliament to discuss the ongoing demonstrations and protests in Iran chaired by John McDonald MP.

26 November 2022, 3pm, Piccadilly Circus
Joint action with FiLiA. #Hair4Freedom

19 November, 3pm, Piccadilly Circus
100 Reasons to Defend Iran’s Women’s Revolution. More information here. 

12 November 2022, Ghent
Nacht van de vrijdenker. More information.

22-24 October 2022, Cardiff
FiLiA 2022, More information here.

10 September 2022, Cologne
IBKA-Sapio Award to Maryam Namazie. More information.

20-21 August 2022
#CelebratingDissent2022 will be held in Cologne, Germany during 21-22 August 2022 with over 50 speakers from 30 countries in the largest gathering of #exMuslims, #atheists and #freethinkers since lockdown. It follows from the highly successful Celebrating Dissent Festival in Amsterdam in 2019 and the Freedom of Conscience and Expression conference in London in 2017. The two-day event is organised by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Freethought Lebanon and in partnership with Atheist Refugee Relief (Säkulare Flüchtlingshilfe Deutschland), Center for Inquiry, Freedom From Religion Foundation, Giordano Bruno Stiftung, National Secular Society and Volkshochschule Köln (VHS Köln). More info can be found on the conference website.

30 June 2022
Maryam Namazie speaks in ClubHouse on the taboo-breaking actions of Nude Protest. In Persian.

13 June 2022, 6pm UK time

Organised by Center for Civil Courage from Croatia and Women’s Solidarity from Serbia, Brave Women for 2022 presents courageous women from all over the world whose thoughts and deeds encourage us every day in our struggle for women’s liberation. To register for the talk, click here. Find out more information.

20 November 2021, London
Blasphemous Women and Equality, Film Screening and Discussion. Get your tickets here.

VIA VIDEOLINK DUE TO CORONAVIRUS: 3 April 2020, Emerging Leaders Programme, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
Maryam will join a panel discussion on ‘FoRB and implications for non-religious belief’
More details here.

29 February 2020 – TedX Warwick Creativity within Crisis
Maryam will be speaking at TedX Warwick Creativity within Crisis Event. For more information, visit here.

25 February 2020, 6:30 pm – New College of the Humanities
Maryam will be speaking to the Atheist Secularist and Humanist Society on Celebrating Apostasy and Blasphemy at the New College of the Humanities.

1 February 2020
Secularism, faith and the women’s movement workshop at the Women’s Liberation 2020 Conference
Maryam Namazie and Yasmin Rehman will give workshops on Secularism, faith and the women’s movement at the Women’s Liberation 2020 Conference organised by Women’s Place UK in London. For tickets, visit here.

2019

4 November 2019, Edinburgh
Maryam to speak to Edinburgh University Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society on Celebrating Apostasy, Blasphemy and Dissent.

19th – 20th October 2019, Bradford
Apostasy and Blasphemy Panel, FiLia Conference. More details here.

31 August-1 September 2019, Amsterdam
Two-day Festival Celebrating Dissent at De Balie

27-28 July 2019, Cambridge
Rationalist International Conference

23 April 2019, Meet-Up, 6:30-8:00pm
Maryam Namazie will speak about Open Borders

6 April 2019, Rich Mix Cinema London
4:30pm – 6pm Panel discussion
Guest speakers: Monica Ali, Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Gita Sahgal, Rashmi Varma and Maryam Namazie
At 12pm, there will be screening My Beautiful Laundrette and at 2.30pm of Brick Lane. The panel discussion marks Southall Black Sisters’ 40th anniversary. The rise of religious fundamentalism in the 1980s, partly as the result of the failure of anti-racist politics in the UK, represented a serious setback to the nascent growth of women’s freedoms in the Asian community. My Beautiful Laundrette and Brick Lane touch on the fault lines within communities and question explicitly the notion of community homogeneity thereby revealing the fallacy of multiculturalism and religious identity politics, issues that crop up time and again in SBS’s work.

28 February 2019, 7pm, Cambridge University
Maryam will speak to the Cambridge Atheist, Secular and Humanist Society on LGBT Rights, Atheism and Blasphemy

14 February, 6:30pm-10pm, Conway Hall, London
Feminist Dissent Event: Why we defended Rushdie and why it is still important today: 30 Years After Fatwa

31 January 2019, Amsterdam
Talk to students of Calvijn College Amsterdam and Het Amsterdams Lyceum

30 January 2019, Amsterdam
De Balie Freedom Lecture

29 January 2019, Brussels
Freedom Lecture on Tour
De Balie ism Het huisvandeMens Brussel

22 January 2019, University of Warwick
Warwick for Free Speech and Human Rights on Free Speech, Religion and Gender Equality

20 January 2019, London
LGBT & Secular Rights At Risk: A Bangladesh Perspective
Human Rights are at risk in Bangladesh. Especially, the rights of the LGBT+ community and the secular community are the most vulnerable. We want to speak on behalf of these communities and raise our voice. We want to defend their rights. We want to reach towards the wider communities and gain support through this conference. Speakers: Maryam Namazie, Gita Sahgal, Lizzie Streeter, Hsien Chew, Henna Khanom, Sadikur Rahman Rana, Jimi Bangash, Mediah Ahmed, Bonya Ahmed, and others. More information can be found on Facebook event page.

16 January 2019, Stockholm
Never Forget Fadime International Conference in Swedish Parliament

2018

25 November 2018, London
2018 Conference on Sharia, Segregation and Secularism

2-4 November 2018, San Francisco
Freedom from Religion National Convention

5 July 2018
Maryam to speak to کلوکیوم in Persian at UCL

23 June 2018, NYC
2018 Muslimish Conference

2 June 2018, Cagliari, Italy
UAAR Cagliari – Public debate on state secularism and civil rights
More details here.

22 May 2018, Brussels
Seminar at European Parliament on Fundamentalism & Neo-Liberalism in Europe: Their Collusion and Impact on Women’s Rights and Ethnic Minorities Rights

18 May 2018, London
Fast-defying Protest in solidarity with those persecuted during Ramadan

4-6 May 2018, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Giornate Della Laicità 2018 organised by Iniziativa Laica
For more details click here.

19 April 2018
Femen’s 10th Anniversary: Riot Party in Paris
To get free tickets.

13 January 2018, Paris
AVEC CHARLIE, Laïcité, j’écris ton nom

6 January 2018, Paris
Event marking the 3rd anniversary of the shooting of Charlie Hebdo at Les Folies Bergères in Paris, #ToujoursCharlie

2017

20-22 October 2017, Rome, Italy
Women’s Freedom in the 21st Century: Thoughts and Practices
Beyond all the Fundamentalisms, Casa Internazionale delle donne, Rome, Italy

13-15 October 2017, Belgrade
Growing Signs of Fundamentalism – Democratic and Feminist Response, Feminist roundtable discussion by Women in Black, October 13-15, 2017, Belgrade

14-17 September 2017, Madison, WI
Freedom from Religion Foundation 40th National Convention

22-24 July 2017, London
Historic International Conference for Freedom of Conscience and Expression in the 21 Century

22-24 May 2017, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Third Annual International Conference of Dabran Platform and The Founding Congress of Enlightenment Feminism

12-14 May, Helsinki, Finland
Rationalist International Conference

31 March – 2 April 2017
Atheist Weekend, KFI Foundation, Poland

14 March 2017
University of Edinburgh Humanist Society, Scotland

11 March 2017
Unspeakable Women: Launch of Critical Sisters in Cheltenham

24 February 2017
Secularism and Diversity Conversation at Westminster University

15 February 2017
Nettavisen Conference on Islam, Secular Integration, Freedom of Speech, Oslo

27 January 2017
LSE Human Rights Society Debate on Sharia and Human Rights

2016

9 December 2016
Panel discussion at UCL on Secularism, Freedom of Women and LGBT Rights

7 November 2016
Public Seminar at UK Parliament on Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice, London

3 November 2016
IX Meeting of Asturian Cooperation for Development, Oviedo, Spain

24 October 2016, London
Religion, Spirituality and End of Life Care organised by Royal Society of Medicine

19 October 2016
Religious Arbitration and Women’s Rights, Manchester

29 September 2016
Religious Arbitration and Women’s Rights: SBS meeting for BME women, London

23-25 September 2016
Women in Secularism 4 conference in Arlington, VA

14-16 September 2016

Keele international symposium on Changing times, changing minds: Child Protection and bodily integrity, Staffordshire

17 July 2016
Leicester Secular Society event

9-10 July 2016
Workers’ Liberty annual summer festival, Ideas for Freedom

23 July 2016
جلسه پرسش و پاسخ با مريم نمازى در مورد سكولاريسم در تلگرام
سكولاريسم جزئى از حقوق انسان
گروه آزادى برابرى انسانيت

14 June 2016
University of Durham, Durham

4-5 June 2016
Reason Rally and Conference, Washington DC

17 May 2016
Newcastle University Atheists & Secular Humanists, Newcastle

11 May 2016
Chiltern Humanists, Amersham

4 May 2016
University of Hull Atheist Society, Hull

30 April 2016
Day Conference on Sharia Law and Parallel Legal Systems in Britain, London

28 April 2016
Warwick University Conference on Free Expression

27 April 2016
Bodley Club and Neave Society Event, Merton College, Oxford

23-24 April 2016
Rationalist International Conference at Tallinn, Estonia

15 April 2016
Muslimish Meetup, NYC

1-3 April 2016
Atheist weekend, Warsaw, Poland

22 March 2016
Culture in Conflict 2 discussing Jafar Panahi’s film Tehran Taxi, Luton

March 2016
End of Free Speech?, Festival of ideas, Bristol

17 March 2016
Protest against NUS for policies that restrict free expression, London

15 March 2016
LSE Atheist Society Event, London

14 March 2016
Women’s Rights in the Middle East, UCLU

9 March 2016
Women’s Freedom and Islam, University of Kent

7 March 2016
University of Leicester

29 February 2016
Tariq Ramadan and Maryam Namazie discuss Islam in Europe today, Oxford Union, Oxford

27 February 2016
Place of Religion in 21 Century, Birmingham University, Birmingham

23 February 2016
Towards a Secular Europe: Confronting Fundamentalisms, European Parliament, Brussels

17 February 2016
Spiked Conference on The New Intolerance on Campus, London

2015

13 December 2015
Maryam will speak at end-year celebrations organised by One Law for All and Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. More details here.

30 November 2015
Maryam will speak at Goldsmiths.

25 November 2015
Maryam will speak at the University of Exeter at meeting organised by Atheist Society.

12 November 2015
Nottingham, UK
Maryam will be speaking in Nottingham.

28 October 2015
Warwick
Warwick University Student Union has apologised and given go ahead for Maryam speak at an event organised by the Atheist Society. Maryam’s statement on initial denial can be found here.

24 October 2015
London, UK
Maryam Namazie joins Pragna Patel, Gita Sahgal and Houzan Mahmoud in a discussion on religious fundamentalisms at the London Feminist Conference. More details here.

20 October 2015
Dublin, Ireland
Maryam Namazie will be speaking to University Philosophical Society at Trinity College, Dublin on Apostasy and the Rise of Islamism on 20 October 2015. Her speaking engagement follows her last speech being cancelled after she refused restrictions on her talk. For more information, click here.

29 September 2015
Leicester, UK
Maryam will be speaking on “Blogging in the Age of Intolerance” at the Everybody’s Reading festival. More details here.

10 September 2015
The Netherlands
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Among Unbelievers events on 10 September in Leeuwarden and 15 September in Rotterdam. More details here.

15 September 2015
The Netherlands
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Among Unbelievers events on 10 September in Leeuwarden and 15 September in Rotterdam. More details here.

29 August 2015
Paris, France
Maryam Namazie will join a debate on Women and Gods with FEMEN’s Inna Shevchenko, Council of Ex-Muslims of France’s Waleed Al Husseini, Charlie Hebdo’s Zineb El Rhazoui, and Michele Idels of AFD/MLF at a FEMEN International Feminist Training Camp with L’AFD/MLF

Saturday 20 June 2015, 1500-1800 Hours
London, UK
Join us for appetisers, drinks, music, speeches and laughs to celebrate the CEMB’s 8th anniversary.
Speakers and acts include: Philosopher A C Grayling Singer Alya Marquardt Secular activist Aliyah Saleem Ex-Muslims North Founder Behzad Sandbad London Black Atheists Clive Aruede and Lola Tinubu Bread and Roses TV Host Fariborz Pooya Centre for Secular Space Director Gita Sahgal Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco Founder Imad Iddine Habib FEMEN Leader Inna Shevchenko Comedian Kate Smurthwaite Women’s Rights Activist Magdulien Abaida Maajid Nawaz, Founder of Quilliam Foundation CEMB Spokesperson Maryam Namazie Master Magician Neil Edwards Southall Black Sisters Director Pragna Patel Nari Diganta Activist Rumana Hashem National Secular Society President Terry Sanderson.
Tickets: £18 (waged); £10 (unwaged)
To register, please email your name and mobile number to exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com. You can purchase your ticket(s) via Paypal (http://ex-muslim.org.uk/donate/) or by sending a cheque made payable to ‘CEMB’ to: BM Box 1919, London WC1N 3XX.

17 July 2015, Day of Action for Raif Badawi

5-7 June 2015
Vancouver, Canada
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the 5th Imagine No Religion Conference in Vancouver, Canada with Scientist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, and founder of the Global Secular Humanist Movement Faisal Saeed Al Mutar amongst others. More details here.

30 May 2015
Bergen International Festival, Norway
Misogyny in the Name of God
Many would claim that the patriarchal religions contain a view of women that is at odds with human rights. How does this affect our cultural understanding and the world today? In connection with the world premiere of Adam & Eve , we invite Deeyah Khan, Gunnar Stålsett, John Peder Egenæs, Cecilie Ore and Maryam Namazie to a panel discussion in association with Amnesty International and Bergens Tidende. Moderator: Hilde Sandvik. We will also be showing Yoko Ono’s controversial art film Arising. ​ More details here.

22-24 May 2015
International Atheist Convention “Give Peace A Chance -Secularization and global conflicts”, Cologne, Germany
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the conference on Promoting Secularism in the Age of ISIS. More details here.

27-31 March 2015
Marea Feminist Review Anniversary, Italy
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the anniversary celebrations of a feminist review in Genoa, Torino and Imola, Italy with Inna Shevchenko, Nadia El Fani, Marieme Helie Lucas and others. Details of Genoa event can be found here. Details of Torino event can be found here: depliant Manifesto Laicità.

23 March 2015, Trinity College Dublin
Maryam will be speaking on Apostasy and the Rise of Islamism. EVENT CANCELLED BY ORGANISERS.
Maryam will be speaking there soon.

19 March 2015
NE Humanists Event, Newcastle
Maryam Namazie will be speaking in Newcastle. More details here.

8 March 2015
London
Maryam Namazie speaks at an International Women’s Day event organised by Nari Diganta – the Women in Movement for Equality, Social Justice and Secularism.

7 March 2015
London
Maryam speaks at event organised by the Sindhi Women’s group. I was “disinvited” from this event due to “complaints” the night before the event.

3 March 2015, 18:00 hours
LSE SUASH London
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a seminar organised by LSE SU ASH on: “The Future of Secularism in a Multi-ethnic UK”. More information here.

7 February 2015, 9:30-5:30pm
Sharia Law, Apostasy and Secularism Day-Conference in London
Maryam Namazie will join other speakers at a conference organised by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All. Speakers include Campaigner for Secular Education Aliyah Saleem, Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Amal Farah, Secular Activist Chris Moos, Director of the Centre for Secular Space Gita Sahgal, Founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco Imad Iddine Habib, Spokesperson of One Law for All Maryam Namazie, Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Nahla Mahmoud, Human Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell, Southall Black Sisters Director Pragna Patel, Founder of Ex-Muslims of Scotland Ramin Forghani, Nari Diganta’s Rumana Hashem, and Women’s Rights Campaigner Yasmin Rehman. For more information, click here.

29 January 2015
Living in outrageous times: Charlie Hebdo and the culture of offence, UCLU Atheist, Secularist and Humanist society Panel Discussion with Peter Bradley, the director of Speakers’ Corner Trust and former Labour MP and Maryam Namazie, an international firebrand and spokesperson for Iran Solidarity, One Law for All and the Council of ex-Muslims of Britain and others. For more information, go to Facebook Page.

17-19 January 2015
12th Anniversary of Fadime Sahindal’s honour killing, Stockholm, Sweden
Maryam Namazie will take part in events commemorating the honour killing of Fadime Sahindal. She will speak at 17 January 2015 event from 14.30-17.00 in Berns Salonger and at an International Conference on Förstakammarsalen at the Swedish parliament in cooperation with FP and MP Robert Hannah on 19 January from 10.00-17.00 organised by Never forget Pela and Fadime National organisation- GAPF. For more detailed information please visit their website.

29 November 2014
NSS AGM, London
Maryam Namazie will be speaking after the NSS AGM on Secularism as a response to the religious-Right.

7-8 November 2014
Maryam Namazie will speak at the first conference organised by the International Feminist and Secular Network in Paris. More information can be found here.

11-12 October 2014
London, UK
Maryam Namazie is organising and speaking at a two-day international conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights at Tower Hotel, London. More information can be found here.

9 August 2014
Oxford, UK
Maryam will participate in a panel “Is there something about Islam?” with Majid Nawaaz and Kenan Malik amongst others at the World Humanist Congress.

28 June 2014, 14:00 – 17:00
CitizenM Hotel, 60 Renfrew St, Glasgow, G2 3BW
Apostasy, Atheism, Secularism and Ex-Muslims
First Public Seminar of Ex-Muslims Scotland

28 April 2014
Protest against Law Society’s legtimisation of Sharia Law in London. More details here.

17-20 April 2014
Salt Lake City, Utah
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at 2014 American Atheists National Convention. More details here.

28-30 March 2014
Warsaw, Poland
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the first Atheist Days in Poland on 28-30 March. The event starts on Friday (28.03) with an evening of atheist movies. On 29.03, there will be a March of atheists followed by the historical reconstruction of the execution of the nobleman Lyszczynski , the author of the treaty “On non existentia dei” accused of atheism 325 years ago. This will be followed by the Atheist Congress and Dinner. Maryam will be speaking on a panel on religion and women’s discrimination at the congress. You can see the programme in Polish here.

15-16 March 2014
Columbia, Missouri
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the Missouri University SASHA (Skeptics, Atheists, Secular Humanists and Agnostics) conference in Columbia, Missouri. More information here.

8 March 2014
Nude protest at Louvre in Paris for International Women’s Day with Amina Sboui, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Solmaz Vakilpour, Safia Lebdi, Meriam Russel and myself. See details here.

10 December 2013
London protest against Universities UK endorsement of sex segregation at universities. You can join Facebook Events Page here.

15-16 November 2013
New York, USA
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the Global Secularisms Conference at New York University. For more details, visit here.

6 November 2013
Brighton, UK
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a meeting organised by the Brighton Secular Humanists at 730pm at Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton University, Grand Parade, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 0JY. More information available here.

2 November 2013
London, UK, 6-9pm
Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Passion for Freedom’s 5th art festival private viewing. To RSVP email onelawforall@gmail.com. More More information can be found here.

24 October 2013
London, UK

Maryam Namazie will speak on a panel entitled ‘Women’s Movements Changing Women Changing the World’ at a House of Lord Seminar organised by Women Worldwide Advancing Freedom & Equality (WWAFE). Place: Committee Room 1, 6.00pm to 8.00pm House of Lords. [We will begin promptly, so arrival at 5.30pm will ensure you gain a seat.]

15 October 2013

London, UK

LSESU Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society public debate

Date: Tuesday 15 October 2013

Time: 6.30-8pm

Venue: CLM4.02, Clement House

Speakers: Akeela Ahmed, Edie Friedman, Taj Hargey, Maryam Namazie

Chair: Professor Chetan Bhatt

Is the Niqab (face veil) a human right, a security concern or a symbol of oppression? Given the most recent events, this debate will shed some light on this controversial topic.This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email c.m.moos@lse.ac.uk or call 074 2872 0599.

30 August – 2 September 2013

Boston, USA

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Atheist Alliance of America Conference. For more information, click here.

22-24 August 2013

Marseilles, France

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on Arab revolutions and Feminism panel organised by the Green Party’s Feminism Group. More information can be found here.

11 August 2013

Edinburgh, Scotland

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm at: The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, EH2 1JE

Maryam will be speaking at Skeptics on the Fringe Festival on “Secularism is my right; freedom my culture”. More details here.

16 July 2013

Manchester, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a meeting organised by Greater Manchester Humanists during 18:30 to 19:45 at Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St., Manchester M2 5NS. For more information,click here. Free entry.

6 July 2013

Paris, France

Launch of the Council of Ex-Muslims of France.

29-30 June 2013

Dublin, Ireland

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Atheist Ireland’s international conference on Empowering Women Through Secularism. More information here.

15 June 2013

London, UK

CEMB sixth anniversary luncheon with keynote speaker Kenan Malik. 12.30 for a 1pm start. Tickets: £35; £30 unwaged. Reserve your space now. For more information, click here.

17-19 May 2013

Washington, DC, USA

Women in Secularism 2 Conference

More information available here.

4 April 2013

International Day to Defend Amina. More information here.

8 March 2013, 4pm

Frankfurt, Germany

Seminar to mark International Women’s Day

Speakers: Mina Ahadi, International Committee against Stoning and Council of Ex-Muslims of Germany; Nadeen Gamil, Egyptian Women’s Union; Necla Kelek, Sociologist; Houzan Mahmoud, Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq; Maryam Namazie, One Law for All, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Equal Rights Now – Organisation against Women’s Discrimination in Iran; Taslima Nasrin, Writer; and Zana Ramadani, FEMEN Germany. Place: (Uni Frankfurt) Asta, Festsaal, Bockenheimer Warte, Merton Str.26-28, 60325 Frankfurt am Main. For more information: 015774650186.

26 February 2013

Birmingham, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Birmingham University Reason Week on 26 February hosted by the Atheist, Secular and Humanist Society on Apostasy and Freedom of Conscience from 1900-2030 hours. Arts Building LR7. For more information, go here.

11 February 2013

London, UK

On February 11th, at 7pm at Toynbee Hall in East London, the Centre for Secular Space launches its first publication, Double Bind: the Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights by Meredith Tax. Speakers at the event include Meredith Tax, Gita Sahgal, Maryam Namazie (Fariborz Pooya went in my place) and Ansar Ahmed Ullah. For more information, contact: admin@centreforsecularspace.org.

28 January 2013

London, UK

There will be an ex-Muslim women’s coffee morning in January from 11:30-1:00pm and an apostate asylum seekers meet-up from 1:30-3:00pm. To RSVP, emailexmuslimcouncil@gmail.com.

31 January 2013

Leeds, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at ‘Engage: Leeds Speakers Forum’ on 31 January 2013 at 17.15 at the University of Leeds in the Maurice Keyworth building G.31. Her talk will be: Islam in Public Policy: A look at Sharia courts in Britain, multiculturalism and gender inequality. For more information, email fergus-simpson@hotmail.co.uk. There is no need to register for the event.

30 November – 2 December 2012

Houston, Texas

Maryam will be speaking at a two-day symposium organised by the Institute of Humanist Studies entitled ‘Does theism have an impact on public policy and, if it does, what is it and how should humanists respond to this situation?’ held on the Rice University campus.

17 November 2012

Private Luncheon

Forum members are invited to a private luncheon to celebrate the CEMB’s forum 5th anniversary. If you are interested in attending, please emailexmuslimcouncil@gmail.com..

8-11 November 2012

Jersey Human Rights Festival

Maryam will be speaking about human rights in Iran and Sharia law. More details here.

3 November 2012

One Law for All Passion for Freedom Art Festival Opening night. More details here.

22 September 2012, 9am-5pm

National Secular Society One Day Conference on Secularism

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the conference along with other speakers including Richard Dawkins and Peter Tatchell. For more information, click here.

19 September 2012, 7.30pm

Coventry, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking to a meeting organised by Coventry Skeptics in the Pub on Sharia law atThe Albany, 24 Albany Road, Coventry, CV5 6JUMore information here.

4 August 2012, 10.00am

Montreal, Canada

Sharia law, the veil and sexual apartheid

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a conference on Sex and Secularism hosted by Humanist Canada, the Quebec Humanist Association and the Quebec Secular Movement. More details can be found here.

Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain’s fifth anniversary

23 June 2012, London

1-4pm

To celebrate the work, significance and achievements of this unique organisation on its fifth birthday, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain are holding a fundraising luncheon on Saturday 23 June 2012 in London from 13.00-16:00 hours. Ticket(s) are £45.00 per person or £35.00 for students/unwaged. For more information, click here.

26 May 2012

Brighton, UK

4.30 – 6pm at the Brighton Dome, Pavilion Theatre

Maryam Namazie will join a panel staged by Index on Censorship and Free Word as part of this year’s Brighton Festival on the afternoon of 26th May called ‘Where do you draw the line?’ Open dialogue is the key to a healthy, cohesive society, but some fear the disruptive, dangerous potential of truly free speech. Inspired by themes of DV8’s show Can We Talk About This? the event presents an interactive conversation about how, when and why we censor ourselves. Chaired by Kenan Malik, author of From Fatwa to Jihad and regular guest on The Moral Maze, the discussion moves between panellists and the audience using electronic polling terminals, with poll results screened live. To buy tickets and for more information, click here. 18-20 May 2012

Kamloops, BC Canada

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the Imagine No Religion 2 Conference in Kamloops, BC Canada during 18-20 May 2012. For more information, click here.

28 April – 6 May 2012

CFI Event

Maryam Namazie joins Richard Dawkins and Ronald Lindsay on Centre for Inquiry’s River Cruise to speak about Secularism and Sharia law as well as Freedom of Expression and Islam. More details here.

31 March 2012, 2pm

Paris, France

Maryam Namazie will be joining the launch of FEMEN- Paris in a collective action in the public space to support women’s rights activists of the spring revolutions in Arab countries. It will take place at 144 Rue Quicampoix / Paris / Galerie du jour, Paris. For more information, contact: femen.fr@gmail.com.

19 March 2012

Lyttleton Theatre, National Theatre, London

DV8: Can We Talk About This?

Freedom of speech, multiculturalism and Islam; a panel discussion about the issues raised in the new production with guests Inayat Bunglawala, Founder and Chair of Muslims4UK, Maryam Namazie, campaigner and Spokesperson for One Law for All, and DV8’s Artistic Director Lloyd Newson.

Tickets £4 (£3 concessions)

Running time: 6-7pm

For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

14 March 2012, 7pm

Maryam Namazie and Anne Marie Waters will be speaking on ‘Sharia Law and Human Rights’ in the Skeel Lecture Theatre in Francis Bancroft Building, University of London. This meeting is in place of the 16 January meeting that was cancelled due to Islamist threats. The meeting has been organised by the Queen Mary Atheist Society.

10-11 March 2012

Manchester, UK

Maryam Namazie will b e speaking at the QED science and skepticism conference taking place in the Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester on the 10th-11th March 2012. For more information, visit here. 5 March 2012, 7-8.30pm Maryam Namazie will be speaking on “Sharia law – Divine claims and harsh realities” at the LSE opposite to the Peacock Theatre. The event is organised by the LSESU Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society. A map can be found here.

3 March 2012

Gent, Belgium

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a debate organised by ‘Freethinking Women’s Organisation of Oost-Vlaanderen’ on 3 March 2012 in Gent, Belgium on ‘Can universal values be other than secular values?’ More information to follow.

11 February 2012

Day in Defence of Free Expression

London Rally from 2-4pm, Old Palace Yard opposite the House of Lords. For more information, visit One Law for All.

4 February 2012, 13.00 hours

Stockholm, Sweden

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on Sharia law at a public meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.

ABF huset, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm. For more information, contact: Afsaneh Vahdat, 070-246 84 54

1 February 2012

Sheffield

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a meeting organised by the Sheffield Humanist Society on Wednesday 1st February at The Friends Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW from 6:30 to 8:00pm. The talk will be on “One Law for All, Sharia and Secularism”.

28 January 2012

Conway Hall, London

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a conference on ‘Blasphemy!’ – blasphemy, religious hatred, and human rights: who speaks for the sacred? The title of her talk: Blasphemy, Offence, and Islamophobia limiting Citizen Rights. Maryam will be speaking on how accusations of blasphemy, offensive speech and ‘Islamophobia’ censor and restrict free speech, limit citizen rights, and aid and abet Islamism.

More information at CFI

8 December 2011

UCL, London

18:00 – 21:00

26 Bedford Way

London WC1H

UCLU Atheist, Secular and Humanist Society will be hosting a debate on a very important topic. The proponents of the motion will be arguing that Sharia Law negates human rights. The opposing speakers will attempt to argue otherwise. Co-hosted by UCLU-ASHS and One Law for All, a campaign to protect human rights which believes that Sharia Law opposes the principles of equality enshrined in British law. Drinks will be provided.

For more information, go to Facebook page or email here.

29 October 2011

London

One Law for All’s Passion for Freedom art exhibition opening night.

18 October 2011

Lymington, UK

Maryam will be speaking to a meeting organised by the Amnesty International group.

27 September 2011

Copenhagen, Denmark

Maryam will be speaking at a meeting organised by the Danish Atheist Society at 7pm at Dansk Designmuseum, Bredgade 68.

20 September 2011

Birmingham, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a fringe meeting at the LibDem Federal Conference in Birmingham.

8pm-9:15pm, Tuesday 20th September, in Jurys Inn, 245 Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HQ.

17 September 2011

London, UK

Secular Europe Campaign March and Rally

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at therally in London. For more information, click here.

16 September 2011

London, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on a panel discussion on Islam in a secular Europe at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL from 7:00pm – 9:30pm. To register, click here.

22-28 August 2011

Sydney and Melbourne Australia

Updated schedule of events

10 August 2011

World Founding Congress of Free Thought, Oslo, Norway

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the Congress held during 900am to 530pm and organised by the International Liaison Committee for Atheists and Freethinkers. It is held in conjunction with the World Humanist Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. Other speakers include: Marc Blondel, Jacques Lafouge, Keith Porteus Wood, Charles Susanne, David Silverman, Tanya Smith, Christian Eyschen, and Roger Lepeix. 28 June 2011

House of Commons, UK

Should the practice of sharia law be permitted under the powers of the Arbitration Act? One Law for All and the National Secular Society are organising a debate at 6-8pm. Chair – Jim Fitzpatrick MP. To RSVP, email onelawforall@gmail.com. For more information.

24-26 June 2011

Genoa, Italy

Punto G: Gender and Globalization Conference

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a global debate organised by Marea Review. For more information.

19 June 2011

Newcastle, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the NE Humanists Conference held from 10.30am to 16.30pm at the Royal Station Hotel. More details here.

5 June 2011

European Atheist Conference

Dublin, Ireland

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the European Atheist Conference. More information.

4 June 2011

HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy festival at Hay on Wye, UK

Maryam Namazie will be giving a solo talk at 14.00 entitled the Islamist Inquisition at HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy festival at Hay on Wye. She will also be debating Islam in a panel discussion at 10.30am entitled the Scimitar’s Edge with Lauren Booth and Iain Edgar. Mary Ann Sieghart chairs. Other speakers include A C Grayling, Baroness Mary Warnock, Philip Pullman, Dame Athene Donald, Tessa Jowell, Leela Gandhi, Alex Callinicos, Lord Layard, Baroness Susan Greenfield, David Aaronovitch and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. More information here.

17 May 2011

Birmingham, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on the One Law for All campaign in Birmingham organised by Birmingham Humanists at Moseley Exchange, 149 Alcester Road B13 8JP from 19.30-21.30.

6 May 2011

Oxford Union, Oxford

Maryam Namazie will be proposing the motion that multiculturalism has been a failure at Oxford University.

4 April 2011

Bradford University, Bradford, UK

Maryam Namazie will be speaking to students about apostasy and sharia law at an event organised by Bradford Humanist and Atheist Society.

International Conference on Women’s Rights, Sharia Law and Secularism

12 March 2011

10.00-19.00 hours

University of London Union, The Venue, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY

Sponsored by International Committee against Stoning, Iran Solidarity, Equal Rights Now and One Law for All. For more information, click here.

Islam in Western Countries

4-5 March 2011

Torino, Italy

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a conference on the One Law for All campaign and Sharia Law.

Amnesty International Regional Conference

19 February 2011

Salisbury, UK

Maryam will be speaking at the Amnesty International Regional Conference on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and Sharia Law

European Parliament Press Conference and Meeting

15 February 2011

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a 1500 hours press conference and 18:30 meeting at the European Parliament on the rising executions in Iran at Avenue du President Robert Schuman, 67000 Strasbourg.

LSE Atheist and Humanist Society Meeting

10 February 2011

Maryam Namazie and Anne Marie Waters will speak on Sharia Law and Human Rights at a meeting sponsored by the LSE Atheist and Humanist Society at 18.00pm.

Seminar on ‘Enemies not Allies’

26 January 2011

18.30-20.30 hours

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Sponsored by One Law for All.

Conference on Apostasy, Sharia Law and Human Rights

11 December 2010

10:00-19:00 hours

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Sponsored by Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, Iran Solidarity, National Secular Society, One Law for All and South Place Ethical Society.

Date:4 December 2010

Venue: Lord Justice Laws Treasurer of the Inner Temple

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at their December student conference on The Role of Religion in the Law.

Date: 08 November 2010

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Denham Room, Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory Street, York YO1 6ET

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a meeting organised by the North Yorkshire Humanist Group

More information

Date: 07 November 2010

Time: 3.15pm – 4.15pm

Venue: The Sage Gateshead, New Castle

Maryam Namazie will be joining the Free Thinking Debate: Has God Gone Global at the BBC Radio 3 Freethinking Festival

For more information

Date: 3 November 2010

Time: 7pm

Maryam Namazie will be speaking to Zonta Guilford members on the One Law for All campaign.

Date: 29-31 October 2010

Place: Venice Italy

Maryam Namazie will be involved in the city’s Neda Day events along with Mina Ahadi and others.

Date: 10 October 2010

Global day of action against the death penalty

For more information

Date: 23-24 September 2010

Call to UN to boycott Ahmadinejad and his government

More Information Date: 18 September 2010

Time: 130pm onwards

Place: London

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Protest the Pope

Date: 18 September

Time and Place: Worldwide

In defence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Date: 28 August 2010

100 Cities against Stoning

More Information

Date: 30 July 2010

Venue: Conway Hall, London

Press conference on Iran stoning case, Sakine Mohamadi Ashtiani

Date: 27-29 July 2010

Venue: Leicester University Conference Centre

Maryam will be speaking at ‘Sea of Faith’ conference on how religion and social justice are antithetical. For more information, see www.sofn.org.uk

Date: 24 July 2010

Venue: Trafalgar Square, London

International Sakine Mohamadi Ashtiani Day, World Citizens against Stoning

For more information on other events and rallies click here.

URGENT – PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE

Date: 20 June 2010

Join us for a Rally organised by One Law for All against Sharia and religious laws and for secularism and universal rights

Where: Richmond Terrace junction with Whitehall opposite Downing Street (SW1A 2) .

(Please note venue change from Trafalgar Square made by police; closest underground: Westminster.)

When: 14:00-16:00 hours

Then join us for a March organised by Iran Solidarity to show solidarity with people in Iran who are at the forefront of battling Sharia law and political Islam

Where: From Downing Street to the embassy of the Islamic regime of Iran (16 Prince’s Gate, London SW7 1PT; closest underground: Knightsbridge).

When: 16:00-17:00 hours

The march will end at 17:30 hours.

One Law for All and Iran Solidarity call on people everywhere to join the 20 June protest in London or to organise rallies or acts of solidarity in various cities across the globe to mark the day when 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead by the Islamic regime of Iran’s security forces at a protest in Tehran. Her demand for freedom in the face of all-out repression has made her a symbol of people everywhere.

Date: 9 June 2010

Time: 6.30-9.30pm

Maryam will be speaking to the Zonta London II club, London

Date: 13 May to 19 June 2010

From 13 May onwards join me in protest against the 9 May execution of the five political prisoners in any way you can. Protests have already been taking place in Iran and at Iranian embassies in various cities worldwide, including a successful general strike in Iranian Kurdistan on 13 May. You can join rallies taking place in your city; pass this information on; ask your friends to support the action; write letters of protest; write to the media; raise the issue at events you organise or attend and at your places of work, school and in your neighbourhoods; do acts of solidarity anywhere you can; volunteer; lend your expertise to make publicity materials, translate, fundraise… Demand the expulsion of the regime from its seat in the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women, from the International Labour Organisation and other bodies. Demand that its embassies and consulates be shut down. And call for an end to the death penalty in Iran and everywhere.

Date: 5 June 2010

Venue: Birmingham Crowne Plaza

Maryam will be speaking at a conference entitled ‘Atheism in the 21 century.’ For more information visit http://www.enquiryconference.org/.

Date: May 30, 2010

Time: 7pm

Venue: Sembal House, SO15 2FH, Southampton

Maryam Namazie will speak about the One Law for All campaign at a meeting organised by the South Hampshire Humanist Group.

Date: Monday, March 8, 2010

Time: 1830-2030 hours

Venue: Conway Hall

A seminar with legal experts, legislators, campaigners and activists on the legal and legislative avenues to restrict Sharia law in Britain.

Tickets: £10; concessionary tickets available.

Date: 6 March 2010

Time: 1200-1400hours

Venue: Trafalgar Square, Northern Terrace, London

Iran Soldarity event for International Women’s Day

Date: 25 February 2010

Time: 1300-1400

Venue: Lincoln College, Oxford

Maryam will be speaking on topic of Ethics and Freedom and how Sharia law violates it

For more information, visit Oxford Think Week site

Date: 11 February 2010

Time: 4-8pm

Venue: Islamic regime of Iran’s embassy in London

Rally in support of people of Iran

Date: 10th February 2010

Time: 6pm

Venue: Human Rights Festival at Kingston University

Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, KT1 2EE

Maryam will be speaking on Iran Solidarity.

Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010

Time: 1900 hours

Venue: Central London gastropub

Fundraising Dinner to raise money for the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All

Keynote Speaker: AC Grayling

Comedian Nick Doody, Singer/Songwriter David Fisher and Magician Neil Edward will do acts

To buy tickets to the event, which includes a three-course meal at one of the finest gastropubs in London , contact onelawforall@gmail.com or exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com. Tickets are £45 per person. If you can’t come to the event, please donate the equivalent so that volunteers of the campaign can attend the dinner.

Date: 26 January 2010

Time: 7pm

Venue: University College Dublin Law Society

Maryam Namazie will debate on the conflict between many of the world’s most followed religious doctrines, the place of women, and equality in society.

Date: 25 January, 2010

Time: Evening

Venue: SW London Humanist Group in Richmond

Maryam Namazie will speak on ‘Sharia versus Human Rights.’

Date: November 27, 2009

Time: 0800-1600

Venue: Malmo, Sweden

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a conference entitled: A voice from voiceless women.

Date: Saturday 21 November 2009

Time: 1200-1400

Venue: North Carriage Drive, in-between Stanhope Place Gate and Albion Gate, Hyde Park, London (Closest underground: Marble Arch)

21 November is a day against Sharia law and for human rights

One Law for All campaign is organising a rally on Saturday 21 November 2009 at 1200pm in London ‘s Hyde Park . The rally aims to oppose religious laws in Britain and elsewhere, show solidarity with people living under and resisting Sharia, and to defend universal rights and secularism.

Simultaneous acts of solidarity and support for the rally and its aims will take place in countries across the world including Australia , Austria , Belgium , Canada , Denmark , France , Germany , Hungary , Israel , Kenya , Nigeria , Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden.

Moreover, winners of the campaign’s art competition exposing the discriminatory nature of religious law and promoting freedom and equal rights will be announced at the event.

One Law for All Spokesperson, Maryam Namazie, commented, ‘Sharia law is becoming a key battleground, particularly because it is an extension and representation of the rising threat of Islamism. Sharia matters to people everywhere because it adversely affects the rights, lives and freedoms of countless human beings across the world. Opposing Sharia law is a crucial step in defending universal and equal rights and secularism and showing real solidarity with people living under and resisting it everywhere. November 21 is yet another important day for further strengthening the mass movement needed that can and will put a stop to Sharia once and for all.’

Notes

1. The One Law for All campaign rally marks Universal Children’s Day and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

2. Speakers at the rally include: Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain’s Asad Abbas; Poet ‘AK47;’ Musician Fari B; International Humanist and Ethical Union’s Roy Brown; Singer/Songwriter David Fisher; Philosopher AC Grayling; Southall Black Sisters’ Rahila Gupta; Poet ‘Lilith;’ Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq’s Houzan Mahmoud, Lawyer Rony Miah; Campaigner Maryam Namazie; Writer Taslima Nasrin; British Humanist Association’s Naomi Phillips; European Humanist Federation’s David Pollock; Iranian Secular Society’s Fariborz Pooya; National Secular Society’s Terry Sanderson; Poet Selina aka ‘Jus1Jam;’ Activist Muriel Seltman; Equal Rights Now’s Sohaila Sharifi; Organisation for the Defence of Secularism and Civil Rights in Iraq’s Issam Shukri; Iran Solidarity’s Bahar Milani; Human Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell and National Secular Society’s Keith Porteous Wood.

3. Art competition judges are Philosopher AC Grayling; Singer Deeyah; Journalist Johann Hari; and Columnist Polly Toynbee.

4. Responses to Frequently Asked Questions including the affinity between the far right and the Islamists, the issue of secularism, whether Islamic states are a threat to humankind and the need to defend the right to asylum for those who have fled Sharia law can be found on https://onelawforall.org.uk/about/faq.

5. One Law for All campaign was launched on 10 December 2008 – International Human Rights Day. It has since received the support of over 20,000 groups and individuals.

6. For further comment or information, please contact Maryam Namazie on +44 (0) 7719166731 or onelawforall@gmail.com or visit www.onelawforall.org.uk .

Date: July 13, 2009

Time: 12:30-1:30pm

Venue: House of Lords, London

Launch of Iran Solidarity

For more information: contact iransolidaritynow@gmail.com

Date: July 15, 2009

Time: 8:00-9:30pm

Venue: The Village Centre, 59 High Street,The Square,Great Eccleston. (Nr Preston). PR3 0YB

Organisation Hosting: Lancashire Secular Humanists

Maryam Namazie will speak about the One Law for All campaign

Contact: Ian Abbott, ian@ianzere.demon.co.uk

Date: June 21, 2009

Time: 7:30pm

Maryam Namazie will speak about the One Law for All campaign

Organisation Hosting: Essex Humanists

Date: 21 May 2009

Time: 7:30pm

Venue: UK , Plowman Room, Oxford Town Hall

Organisation Hosting: Oxford Humanists

Maryam Namazie will speak about the One Law for All campaign

For more information, contact 01865 891876

17 April 2009, 7.30pm, Conway Hall, London , UK

Islam, Human Rights and Homophobia – A talk by Maryam Namazie sponsored by the Gay And Lesbian Humanist Association. For more information: www.galha.org

April 4-5, 2009, International Conference on Secularism, Paris , France

“Bourse du Travail” of Saint-Denis (93200)

9-11, street Génin – (Enter by street Bobby Sands)

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on a panel on the centrality of the struggle for women’s rights from 16h 30 to 18h 30 on April 4. For more information: www.laicity.info

Political Islam, Sharia and Women’s Rights, March 14, 2009,Toronto, Canada

25 Cecil Street, United Steelworkers’ Hall, 7:30pm

Panel discussion on Political Islam, Sharia and Women’s Rights with Maryam Namazie (Spokesperson of Equal Rights Now, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain), Tarek Fatah (Founder of Muslim Canadian Congress and Author of “Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State,” Khayal Ibrahim (Women’s Liberation in Iraq), Justin Trottier (Executive Director of Center for Inquiry, Ontario) and Issam Shukri (Head of the Organization for the Defense of Secularism and Civil Rights in Iraq). For more information: 1-416-471-7138; WPIcanada@yahoo.com.

$5 entry.

Freedom of Expression and Political Islam, a presentation by Maryam Namazie, March 16th, TOronto, Canada

7:00-9:00PM

Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley St., Toronto, ON

For more information.

$8 regular, $4 students, FREE for CFI Friends of the Centre

Vancouver

March 20, UBC

6:30pm, Maryam Namazie’s presentation on Political Islam, Sharia and Women’s Rights

Victoria

March 24

7:00 to 10:00, UVIC

Lecture Hall at Bob Wright Building

Free entry; donations welcome

Maryam Namazie’s presentation on Political Islam, Sharia and Women’s Rights

For more information: 1-250-380-1319; vicc22@hotmail.com.

Sharia Law, Sexual Apartheid and Women’s Rights, march 7, 2009, London

3:30-4:30pm, North Terrace, Trafalgar Square, London

Symbolic rally and march towards Red Lion Square from 4:30-5:30pm

6:00-8:00pm, Public Meeting on Sharia Law, Sexual Apartheid and Women’s Rights

Conway Hall, 25 Red Line Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Speakers at the public meeting include: Sargul Ahmad (International Campaign against Civil Law in Kurdistan Iraq Head), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Journalist and British Muslims for Secular Democracy Chair), Naser Khader (Democratic Muslims Founder), Gina Khan (One Law for All Spokesperson), Kenan Malik (Writer and Broadcaster), Yasaman Molazadeh (One Law for All Legal Coordinator):Maryam Namazie (Equal Rights Now Organisation against Women’s Discrimination in Iran and One Law for All Spokesperson), Pragna Patel (Southall Black Sisters and Women Against Fundamentalism founding member), Fariborz Pooya (Iranian Secular Society and Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain Chair), and Carla Revere (Lawyers’ Secular Society Chair).

One law for all: campaign against sharia law in britain launch, house of Lords, 4-5pm, December 10, 2008, london

on faith scools, january 14 from 7pm, leicester

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on faith schools at a local NUT meeting.

Political Islam and Free Expression, 22 November 2008, 12-4pm, Stockholm

Lars Vilks, Mina Ahadi, Maryam Namazie, Rebecca Hybbinette, Jens Ganman, will be speaking on a panel moderated by Afsaneh Vadhat, and Ellis Wohlner in Sweden.

Emma Humphreys Award Ceremony, 24 October, Drill Hall, London

Maryam Namazie has been nominated for the award and will be attending the ceremony.

On the importance of the CEMB, Central London, October 15

Maryam Namazie will be speaking to members of the Central London Humanist Group on October 15 at 6:30pm.

On the Council of Ex-Muslims, North London, October 16

Maryam Namazie will be responding to questions raised over the past year on the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain at a meeting organised by the North London Humanists, October 16, 8pm.

POlitical Islam, Sharia Law and Civil Society, October 10, 2008 at Conway Hall, London

The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain presents its first international conference: Political Islam, Sharia Law, And Civil Society on Friday 10 October 2008 – International day against the Death Penalty – from 10am-6pm (Registration begins at 9am) at Conway Hall London 25 Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL (Closest station: Holborn). Speakers at the event are: Mina Ahadi, Mahin Alipour, Roy Brown, Andrew Copson, Richard Dawkins,Giles Enders, AC Grayling, Johann Hari, Ehsan Jami, Rony Miah, Maryam Namazie, Fariborz Pooya, Terry Sanderson, Joan Smith, Bahram Soroush, Hanne Stinson, Hamid Taqvaee, Ibn Warraq, Keith Porteous Wood, and Zia Zaffar. Thee vent includes a comedy act by Nick Doody, Fitna Remade by Reza Moradi and Breaking the Taboo by Patty Debonitas. To see the conference proceedings, visit CEMB site: http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/indexPressreleases.html.

Annual Reunion of Kindred Organisations, 21 September, Conway Hall, London

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on behalf of the CEMB at the annual reunion at 1430.

CEMB’s One year anniversary celebration, Central London , July 5, 2008, from 2pm onwards

We are asking members and supporters to join CEMB executive committee members for drinks to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and to meet other like-minded people in central London on 5th July 2008 from 2pm onwards. For more details, please RSVP by emailing us.

Political Islam and Freedom of Expression, June 6, 2008, World Humanist Congress, Washington , DC

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the World Humanist Congress plenary session: Freedom of conscience and Expression at 1:30-2:45pm at the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel just off the National Mall. For more information, click here.

Alternative Islam Conference, Koln, Germany, 31 May-1 June, 2008

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the alternative Islam conference in Koln, Germany on May 31 at 11am and again at 1230pm on a panel with other heads of Ex-Muslim Councils. Her 11am speech is entitled Islam is significant because of political Islam’.

Secularism, Sharia law and the future of civil society, Oxford Secular Society, April 29, 2008, 7:30pm, Oxford

Maryam Namazie will talk about Rowan Williams’ recent comments on Sharia law’s inevitability for Britain and the future of secularism and civil society. She will explain why political Islam needs to be challenged, and how her organisation is helping.

Medieval Executions in 2008, April 15, Boras, Sweden

Maryam Namazie will be speaking on Islam, stonings, honour killings and women’s rights.

International conference against honour killings, April 12, 2008, 5-9pm, London

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at an Organisation for Women’s Freedom in Iraq conference in commemoration of Du’a Kahlil, the 17 year old girl who was stoned to death in Iraqi Kurdistan, and to denounce “honour killings” globally.

Sexual apartheid, Islam and political Islam and Women’s Rights, International Women’s Day seminar, March 10, 2008, Conway Hall, London

The Council of Ex-Muslims and Equal Rights Now, an organisation against women’s discrimination in Iran are holding a seminar in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 10, 2008 from 6-10pm at Conway Hall. The seminar will focus on Sexual apartheid, Sharia law, Islam and political Islam and Women’s Rights. Confirmed speakers at the seminar are: Louise Couling, Chair of the Regional Women’s Committee and member of the National Executive Council of Unison; Joan Smith, Novelist, columnist and human rights activist; Maryam Namazie and Mina Ahadi, the Councils of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Germany and National Secular Society Secularist of the Year award winners in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and Houzan Mahmoud, spokesperson of the Organisation for Women’s Freedom in Iraq. The event will be chaired by Hanne Stinson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association. The seminar has been endorsed by the National Secular Society, the British Humanist Association, the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association and Organisation for Women’s Freedom in Iraq.

Life after leavingIslam, Cambridge University Atheist and Agnostic Society, January 30, 2008, Cambridge

Maryam Namazie will be speaking at Cambridge University Atheist and Agnostic Society on the ex-Muslim movement and its challenge to political Islam on January 30, 2008 at 7:30pm.