On Friday, France marked 100 years since the separation of Church and State. With Islam on the rise in the restive suburbs, French-style secularism is being questioned.
Southall Black Sisters (SBS) est un collectif de femmes sud-asiatiques.1 Nous gérons un centre de conseil, de ressources et de campagne pour les femmes de Southall, une zone de l’Ouest de Londres à forte population sud-asiatique. En comparaison avec beaucoup d’autres communautés asiatiques de ce pays, Southall est hétérogène et possède un esprit cosmopolite. Toutes les religions et tous les groupes ethniques du sous-continent indien y sont présents, même si le groupe ethnique et la religion Sikh du Pendjab sont dominants.
Independence movement in Muslim parts of Mindanao emerges in 1967, achieving autonomy for Muslims in four provinces of Mindanao after a 1989 Organic Act was enacted and a plebiscite was held in implementation of the 1987 Constitution. In 1996, a peace accord between the Philippine government (GRP) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was forged. Among others, the peace accord provides for a process of autonomy in areas identified in the Tripoli Agreement.
Women in the northern Nigerian state of Kano are ignoring a ban stopping them travelling on public motorbike taxis. On Monday religious authorities began implementing the ban passed earlier this year.
Times are changing, and faster than Bal Thackeray knows it. The Shiv Sena patriarch watched his party bite the dust yesterday in its Konkan stronghold, routed by a former Sainik.
Ni Putes Ni Soumises est un mouvement né dans les quartiers populaires français en 2003 suite à la Marche des Femmes contre les Ghettos et pour l’Egalité.
WLUML was one of the organisers of this international consultation and Feminist International Radio Endeavour has made audio files of the speeches of participants available online.
This paper by Nehad Abu El-Komsan covers issues such as divorce, inheritance, travel abroad, 'orfi' marriages and the role of the Family Court. It includes case studies and an analysis of the recent amendments to the Personal Status Law.
