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Sharia courts pose a growing threat to women’s rights

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 16, 2016
  • 11 Comments
  • one law for all, Sharia
The below is my piece published in The Freethinker on 15 December 2016. This week over 300 women who have faced abuse issued a warning of the growing threat to their rights by Sharia courts and parallel legal systems. Also this week, One Law for All submitted devastating new evidence to the Home Affairs Select […]
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Discrimination and violence lie at the heart of Sharia courts

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 2, 2016
  • 0 Comments
  • apostasy, Sharia
The below was published in The Freethinker. I gave oral evidence at the Home Affairs Select Committee evidence session on Sharia Councils on November 1 on why Sharia courts in Britain are an Islamist project to control women, are discriminatory and should be dismantled. (This was preceded by a written statement.) When questioned by MP […]
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Public Seminar at UK Parliament on Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 7, 2016
  • 0 Comments
  • Sharia
Public Seminar at UK Parliament on Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice Date: 7 November 2016 Time: 7-9pm Venue: Committee Room 12, House Of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA Sharia Law, Legal Pluralism and Access to Justice is hosted by several organisations and activists to debate and express their concerns about the increasing […]
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Sharia courts are a human rights scandal, The Freethinker

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 30, 2016
  • 0 Comments
  • Sharia
Here is my monthly column entitled Sharia courts are a human rights scandal in The Freethinker, 29 July 2016. You can also read it below. It is a human rights scandal that Sharia “courts” exist in Britain; it’s where the greatest abuses of minority women takes place. For example, under Sharia rules, a woman’s testimony is worth half […]
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Concerns over the inquiry into Sharia Councils must not be dismissed

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 22, 2016
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  • Sharia
My piece on the Theresa May inquiry into Sharia Councils published on Sedaa on 21 July: Over 200 women’s rights campaigners and organisations recently signed a public letter to Theresa May criticising the government inquiry into Sharia councils chaired by Mona Siddiqui. Whilst a review into Sharia bodies and their impact on gender equality and […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Campaigners urge government to fully and impartially investigate Sharia bodies

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 4, 2016
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  • Sharia, women's rights
4 July 2016 Today, an unprecedented number of women’s rights campaigners and organisations from Britain and internationally have submitted a letter to the Home Secretary raising serious concerns about the government’s ‘independent review’ into Sharia courts in Britain. The letter states that the limited scope of inquiry and its inappropriate theological approach will do nothing to […]
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Do sharia courts discriminate against women?

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 28, 2016
  • 0 Comments
  • Sharia, women
The accommodation of arbitration systems to govern private and family matters had led, arguably, to the greatest human rights violations of minority women in the UK. An open letter by an unprecedented number of women’s rights campaigners and organisations raised serious concerns about a government inquiry into the courts and called it a whitewash. See […]
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Join 200 women’s rights and secular organisations urging British government to stop parallel legal systems

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On June 30, 2015
  • 0 Comments
  • beth dinn, Sharia
One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular Space, IKWRO and others plan to deliver the below statement to 10 Downing Street in the near future. If you and your organisation would like to sign on to the letter, please email onelawforall@gmail.com by 30 August 2015. The letter has received coverage in the […]
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Defending Charlie and Opposing Terrorism is not enough; You need to stand up to Sharia Courts

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 22, 2015
  • 17 Comments
  • BHA, burqa, Charlie, Islamism, Islamophobia, Sharia
This is a shortened version of my speech for a public meeting organised by the NE Humanists on 19 March 2015. Dissent and criticism of religion has always been a crucial aspect of free expression. Such criticism has been key for human progress and is needed more than ever in the age of ISIS. For […]
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Press Release: Much needed 7 February Conference on Sharia Law, Apostasy and Secularism

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 6, 2015
  • 1 Comments
  • apostasy, Secularism, Sharia
PRESS RELEASE 6 FEBRUARY 2015 Secularists will be gathering on 7 February 2015 in London for a day conference on Sharia Law, Apostasy and Secularism. The event follows an historic conference in October 2014 on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights. Speakers at tomorrow’s sold-out conference will discuss freedom of expression, apostasy and blasphemy laws, […]
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