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…
Below is my monthly column for The Freethinker entitled: Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman, 25 May 2016
As US suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said:
You may go over the world and you will find that every…
Our spokesperson, Maryam Namazie, was invited by Dabran Platform to speak at the Founding Congress of Enlightenment Feminism in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan (photos below). She spoke about Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks for women’s emancipation and…
My latest piece in The Freethinker to mark International Women’s Day.
Wherever Islamism gains power and influence, it comes for women first. And it’s always a sign of worse to come, hence the saying:…
Supplementary written evidence submitted by One Law for All
RE: New Submission by Maryam Namazie to Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Sharia Councils
See Submission on Home Affairs Select Committee Website
I am writing to…
Here is the Open Letter to David Cameron and Press Release being handed in to 10 Downing Street on 10 December Human Rights Day.
One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular…
The Kurdistan Secular Centre (KSC) was formally established at a 19 April public meeting in Suleymaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan, attended by hundreds of supporters and by national media. The Centre, created to promote secularism…
The Honourable Jocelynne Scutt introduces the following seminars from three riveting speakers on topics
under the umbrella of:
Sex, Gender, Law & Culture - Perspectives on Women’s Rights & Wrongs…
Interview with Amina Sboui and Aliaa Magda Elmahdy
Maryam Namazie: Why did you do the nude action in Egypt?
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy: In Egypt, a woman is like a lifeless body, a corpse. This body is…
Maryam Namazie
A vast secular movement against the religious-Right is never more needed than in the ISIS era – whether it be in Sri Lanka vis-a-vis the Buddhist Right, India versus the Hindu-Right,…
Interview with Chris Moos, Pragna Patel and Gita Sahgal on the Victory Against the Law Society.
Maryam Namazie: The Law Society has now withdrawn its Sharia-compliant guidance on wills and issued an apology. Why…
Patty Debonitas
Thousands of people have attended breastfeeding protests in support of a Staffordshire mother who was labelled a “tramp” for feeding her baby in public.
The breast is a thing of concern for…