Law reform

On July 11, the African Union adopted the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, a supplementary protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Il y aura bientôt vingt ans que le Code de la Famille est en vigueur en Algérie.
More information on the campaign that seeks to repeal the Family law - or personal status law - that has, since 1984, institutionalised the inferiority of Algerian women for the last 20 years.
Une nouvelle publication du Collectif 95 Maghreb Egalité.

Investigation of the historical, legal, and socio-cultural aspects of Muslim women's status in Malaysia. This set of papers is a collection of writings, which emanated from a research project entitled MUSWAL (Muslim Women and Law), sponsored by the Women's Crisis Centre (WCC) Penang.

ناشطات أردنيات يخض سباقا مع الزمن من أجل الضغط على مجلس النواب للتراجع عن قراره بالغاء قوانين يمنحان المرأة حق طلب الطلاق.
A bill calling on Iran to join an international agreement on women's rights has been rejected by the government's supervisory body.
It will soon be 20 years that the Family law has been enforced in Algeria.
Throughout the Arab world, many women, their husbands and their children suffer hardships due to nationality laws that make it difficult or impossible for a woman married to a non-national (even an Arab or Muslim) to pass her nationality to her children.
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