The below is the English version of an extended interview published in L'Express magazine on 1 November 2020. You can see the full interview in French here.
The English was published on Secularism is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Significant case on women’s rights following break up of marriage at the Court of Appeal
#EqualityNotDiscrimination
Join the One Law for All campaign at the Court of Appeal on 13/14 November to support the…
The below article was published on sister-hood.
“Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness” – All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims definition…
2008
The One Law for All Campaign was launched on 10 December 2008, International Human Rights Day, to call on the UK Government to recognise that Sharia and religious courts are arbitrary and discriminatory…
In the light of recent court decisions on marriage and divorce, today we have written to the Ministry of Justice, calling for an urgent review into Sharia and civil marriage and divorce laws…
Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP
Secretary of State
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
6th February 2018
Dear Right Hon Amber Rudd, MP,
The Independent Review on Sharia: Sharia Laws are part of the extremist threat and not…
‘Sharia’ and other religious systems of arbitration are back in the news once again. There appears to be growing recognition of the profoundly discriminatory nature of religious arbitration systems which relegate Muslim and…
This piece was first published in The Freethinker.
Segregation was humiliating. Just the reality of signs that said you couldn’t use front doors or you couldn’t use this water fountain implied that you were…