[fund] promotion and application of religious laws

Comment l'arbitrage religieux compromet les droits des femmes au Canada et dans le monde.
In last couple of months number of controversial fatwas have been issued and media is strongly reacting to these fatwas.
"Ontario n'autorise pas l'instauration de la charia, la loi islamique, pour régler des litiges familiaux." L'annonce a été accueillie, lundi 12 septembre, avec soulagement par des organisations féminines et inquiétude par des groupes religieux au Canada. Par ailleurs, l'Etat canadien a affirmé son intention d'interdire les tribunaux religieux existants.
Pour les droits des femmes, la séparation du politique et du religieux et le respect de la dignité humaine.
The government outlawed the practice of polygamy nearly a century ago. But Islamic custom can allow men to take up to four wives. In this devoutly Muslim region, it is estimated that nearly a quarter of all marriages are polygamous.
Eight veiled women gather outside a shop selling alcohol on the ground floor of a hotel in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir and start ransacking it. The women comprise the Maryam Squad of the Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of the Nation).
In what was widely seen as an apparent campaign against freedom of thought and religion, the state-sanctioned Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued a fatwa outlawing liberal Islamic thoughts.
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