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We must break hold of pro-Islamist lobby on the Law Society

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 20, 2014
  • 2 Comments
  • Asma Jahangir, Law Society, UK
Please see an open letter to the leading Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir about her forthcoming talk at the Law Society, which has endorsed sharia-compliant wills. Dear Asma Jahangir, We are writing to you regarding your forthcoming conversation at the Law Society on Law, Gender and Religion on the 30th July. We are very pleased you […]
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UK’s smacking law like Sharia

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 16, 2014
  • 20 Comments
  • ban, children's rights, smacking, UK
You can smack a child in the UK if it’s for “reasonable chastisement and does not leave a serious mark”. It reminds me of the Sharia law that allows men to beat their disobedient wives as long as they leave no marks (or at least according to the “Islamic feminist” interpretation). The Children’s Commissioner for England, […]
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To UN: UK Public institutions continue to fail to uphold an environment free of discrimination

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 14, 2014
  • 2 Comments
  • Equality, gender segregation, UK, universities, UUK
14 January 2014 Ms. Farida Shaheed Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Dear Ms. Shaheed, We write to draw your attention to the increasing incidence of gender segregation on public university campuses in the United Kingdom, and to seek your intervention […]
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We will continue our fight against gender apartheid at universities

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 12, 2013
  • 2 Comments
  • gender apartheid, segregation, UK, UUK
More than a 100 protesters rallied outside the office of Universities UK to condemn their endorsement of segregation of the sexes and demand gender equality on 10 December 2013, International Human Rights Day. Chris Moos, a co-organiser of the rally and Secretary of the London School of Economics Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society was master […]
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Sharia Law: Extremism the Government Ignores

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 15, 2013
  • 5 Comments
  • sharia law, UK
In her latest Huffington Post article, One Law for All Spokesperson Anne Marie Waters concludes: One Law for All has repeatedly asked the government why it allows sharia councils, with their blatant disregard for human rights and democracy, to yield power in such important areas as family and criminal law; the government response? It doesn’t […]
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