Resources
On Sharia Council and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Devastating New Evidence on Sharia Courts
Areas of concern regarding Home Affairs Select Committee on Sharia
Sharia courts are quiet continuation of colonial discriminatory condescension
Over 300 Abused Women Issue Statement Against Parallel Legal Systems: Who will listen to our voices?
Personal Testimonies by Women on Inequities of Sharia Courts
One Law for All boycotting “Independent Review” into Sharia
Background on Imams and Scholars on Sharia Inquiry
Campaigners urge government to fully and impartially investigate Sharia bodies
Open letter to the Home Secretary: The law and not religion is basis of justice for citizens
395 signatories call to dismantle parallel legal systems
Sharia Law is Incompatible with Human Rights
Law Society failure to withdraw Sharia-compliant Practice Note gross derogation of duty
Equality and Human Rights Commission rules that gender segregation is unlawful
We must break hold of pro-Islamist lobby on the Law Society
To UN: UK public institutions continue to fail to uphold an environment free of discrimination
Statement on High Court ‘Beth Din’ case
Additional Resources on Sharia
Islamic regime of Iran must be removed from UN Commission on Status of Women
Webinar on marriage law and its effects on minority women
SBS writes to the Law Commission about marriage law and the rights of minority women
Court of Appeal ruling will force women to discriminatory Sharia courts
The hijab: “preventing common impositions”
Does religion have a privileged status in the UK?
Significant case on women’s rights following break up of marriage at the Court of Appeal
The APPG’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’ is a triumph for fundamentalists
Open Letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid: APPG Islamophobia Definition Threatens Civil Liberties
We Call on the British Government to Stop Pushing Minority Women Towards Religious Courts
Sharia Laws are part of the extremist threat and not a solution
Sharia ‘Courts’: Why Regulation is Not the Answer
Gender segregation is humiliating and damaging
Court of Appeal finds gender segregation can amount to unlawful sex discrimination
Manea, Elham, Women and Shari’a Law: The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK, I B Tauris
Sharia courts review branded a ‘whitewash’ over appointment ‘bias’ concerns, Independent
Sharia law in UK: family counseling or women abuse?, RT
Do Sharia councils discriminate against women?, BBC Radio 4 World at One
UK sharia courts condone forced marriage and ignore violence against women, Double Bind
Sharia courts in the UK should be stopped from presiding over divorces, campaigners warn, Independent
Britain must ban Islamic sharia courts, say activists, The Nation
Report on International Conference on Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights, Secular World
Sharia law, apostasy and secularism, Open Democracy
Sharia law versus secular democracy, Huffington Post
Sharia law is incompatible with Human Rights, Fitnah
Law Society backs down on Sharia wills, The Times
Shariafication by Stealth, Pragna Patel, Open Democracy
Child abuse policy at school run by Muslim hardliner was based on sharia: Islamic scholars were to be consulted in welfare cases, Mail on Sunday
Conquering Fear with Hope, Gita Sahgal, Open Democracy
Promoting the global secular alternative in the ISIS era, Karima Bennoune’s interview with Marieme Helie Lucas and Maryam Namazie. Open Democracy
Muslim Women Deserve Better than Sharia Law, Standpoint Magazine
Separate is never equal, Open Magazine
Should secular universities in the UK allow for Muslim segregation? Deutch Welle Radio
Muslim gender segregation stirs UK debate, Al Jazeera
University Challenge: secular neutrality or religious privilege? Open Democracy
Student and women’s groups write open letter to UN condemning gender segregation in UK universities, The Independent
Religion and democracy: never the twain, The Times
On sex segregation, BBC World Service
Gender segregation guidelines u-turn following PM warning, Channel 4 News
Universities pull back from sex segregation as Cameron weighs in, Daily Telegraph
On the niqab, Community Channel
Sexual apartheid: Is there any room for gender segregation, This Week
A future labour government will ‘not tolerate’ gender segregation at our universities, Left Foot Forward
Outcry at ‘gender apartheid’ in new guidance for UK universities, The Independent
University gender segregation ‘violation of women’s freedom’, BBC
Backlash grows over university gender segregation guidelines, Daily Telegraph
Gender Apartheid is real in UK universities so why aren’t more people fighting it? Daily Telegraph
The segregation of women and the appeasement of bigotry at UK’s universities, The Spectator
Sex apartheid in British universities deemed acceptable, Voice of Russia
Gender Segregation protests against university guidelines, Channel 4 News
Why we are protesting against gender segregation this evening, Left Foot Forward
Sex segregation at university debates is not okay, Care2
Sharia councils: unjust, unequal and consequence of failed policies, Left Foot Forward
Secrets Of Britain’s Sharia Councils, BBC Panorama
Here’s why Sharia law has no place in Britain or elsewhere, Nahla Mahmoud, NSS Newsline
Sharia law has no place in Britain or anywhere else, Nahla Mahmoud, Left Foot Forward
One Law for All activist Nahla Mahmoud speaks against Sharia Law in Britain, Channel 4thought TV
British government set to battle Sharia courts, Huffington Post
Sex and Sharia: Muslim women punished for failed marriages, The Independent Blogs
Know your rights under the British family law, One Law for All factsheet
What isn’t wrong with Sharia law, Maryam Namazie, Guardian’s Legal Website
Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights
Human Rights test case call for sharia law, Law Society Gazette
Maryam Namazie on new Sharia report, BBC Breakfast TV
Sharia law or One Law for All, Civitas
One Law for All Seminar on Sharia Law
Muslim leaders’ death threat calls over dress, The Express
Gaza Women denied inheritance rights, Jerusalem Post
Some of us had to flee to escape Sharia, Maryam Namazie, Guardian, Another Thought for the Day
Some Imams biased against women, BBC Asian Network
Launch of One Law for All Campaign, House of Lords
Court rules Islamic law discriminatory, The Independent
Sharia law courts operating in Britain, Telegraph
Sharia law ‘could have a UK role,’ BBC
It’s time to take a stand against Islam and Sharia, Times
Sharia Delusions in Canterbury, Mona Eltahawy, Women Living Under Muslim Laws
Williams under fire in Sharia row, BBC
Sharia law in UK is ‘Unavoidable,’ BBC
We want to offer Sharia law, The Telegraph
Opinions Of The Lords Of Appeal For Judgement In The Cause EM (Lebanon) (FC) (Appellant) (FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 64 on appeal from: [2006] EWCA Civ 1531
Islamic Family Arbitration, Justice and Human Rights in Britain, Samia Bano, University of Reading
In the name of the law, The Guardian
Recognizing the Un-Recognized: Inter-Country Cases and Muslim Marriages & Divorces in Britain, WLUML Publications
The Family Statute Law Amendment Act 2005 (Canada)
Annual Report 2003 of the European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe
Pregnant Nigerian seeks Sharia asylum, BBC
Islamic court condemns author who depicts Jesus as homosexual, The Independent
A review of the Muslim Personal/Family Law Campaign, Canadian Society of Muslims