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• Religious arbitration forums (Law)

  Religious arbitration bodies – Sharia debate in the UK: who will listen to our voices?

  14 December 2016, by 300 abused women

  Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
  We are women who have experienced abuse and violence in our personal lives. Most of us come (…)

• Religious arbitration forums (Law)

  Religious arbitration in family matters – Sharia courts have no place in UK family law. Listen to women who know

  14 December 2016, by PATEL Pragna

  There must be no religious arbitration in family matters. It leaves minority women vulnerable to control by fundamentalists
  “We oppose any religious body – whether presided over by men or women – that seeks to rule over us.” So say more than 300 mostly Muslim women, but also others from (…)

• Religious arbitration forums (Law)

  “Sharia Courts” in Britain, a colonial legacy – “Racism and colonial superiority are what sustain the setting up of separate laws for ‘indigenous people’”

  3 December 2016, by HELIE LUCAS Marieme, NAMAZIE Maryam

  BRITISH ‘SUBJECTS’ DID NOT DESERVE LEGAL EQUALITY WITH THEIR COLONIAL MASTERS: INTERVIEW WITH MARIEME HELIE LUCAS ON SHARIA COURTS IN BRITAIN
  Protest against Sharia in the United Kingdom 2014. Pic Credit: See Li/Wikimedia Commons.
  British MPs on the Commons home affairs committee have (…)

• Religious arbitration forums (Law)

  An Open Letter to the UK Home Secretary: Whitewashing Sharia councils in the UK?

  4 July 2016, by Collective / Multiple signers

  In an Open Letter to the UK Home Secretary, hundreds of women’s human rights organisations and campaigners warn against a further slide towards privatised justice and parallel legal systems.
  In 2015, the UK government announced that it would hold an independent inquiry into the operation of (…)

• Religious arbitration forums (Law)

  An Open Letter to Theresa May: Whitewashing Sharia councils in the UK?

  4 July 2016, by Collective / Multiple signers

  In an Open Letter to Theresa May, hundreds of women’s human rights organisations and campaigners warn against a further slide towards privatised justice and parallel legal systems.
  In 2015, the UK government announced that it would hold an independent inquiry into the operation of Sharia (…)

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  Britain: Open Letter to David Cameron on Sharia ‘courts’ and the lack of access to justice

  10 December 2015, by CEMB, Centre for Secular Space, IKWRO, One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters

  Women’s rights groups urge government to hold inquiry into Sharia ‘courts’ and the lack of access to justice
  Open Letter to David Cameron
  Press Release
  On Thursday 10 December 2015, Southall Black Sisters (SBS), One Law for All, Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO), (…)

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  What isn’t wrong with Sharia law? – “One secular law for all and no religious courts”

  5 July 2010, by NAMAZIE Maryam

  To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.
  The recent global day against the imminent stoning of Sakine Mohammadi-Ashtiani in Iran for adultery is an example of the outrage sparked by the brutality associated with sharia law’s penal code.
  What of its (…)