World Hijab Day, uno strumento di repressione può diventare simbolo di orgoglio? Sky Italy, 1 February 2024
World Hijab Day activists can promote the hijab all they want, especially when living safely in secular…
‘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…
Unveiled and Unbroken, Woman's Revolution in Iran, Queer Majority, 18 February 2023
W hen Mahsa Amini was dragged off last year to undergo “re-education” for “improper” veiling, it was business as usual for Iran’s Islamic morality…
UPDATE: Finally, some justice that 29 UN member states voted to oust #Islamic regime of #Iran from @UN_CSW . Sided with women rather than misogynist regime. But which…
‘This is a woman’s revolution in the making’: how the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran sparked worldwide protest, Metro, 27 September 2022
It was meant to have been a simple trip for Mahsa Amini.…
‘The best way to combat bad speech is with good speech’ – interview with Maryam Namazie, The Freethinker, 12 March 2022
Maryam Namazie is the founder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and a founding member…
Young Muslim woman raped and her children kidnapped by violent husband after trying to obtain divorce through 'sharia courts', Carmon Report, 30 January 2022
A YOUNG British-Pakistani woman was raped by her husband and…
Women Against Taliban, Frauen gegen Taliban, Hpd, 25 August 2021
With the takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan, people around the world are fearing that the Taliban’s first victims will be millions of women.
Only…
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…
Over spring and summer 2020, three cases drew attention to Nigeria’s blasphemy law under which the Sharia Court (religious court) pronounced death sentences in the state of Kano:
In April, Mubarak Bala, President…
Arabic, Bangla, Dhivehi, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Malay, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish and Urdu translations below.
On 22nd August, thousands participated in Apostasy Day, including by taking selfies with the hashtag #HandsUpforApostasyDay #ApostasyDay #ApostasyNotACrime. Overall, 83,000…
Southall Black Sisters (SBS), with support from the One Law For All campaign, recently intervened in the Court of Appeal case of Akhter v Khan to outline our concerns about the current law on marriage and…