Law reform

UPDATE: Iraq: Campaign to affirm Personal Status Law and remove Article 41 from the constitution

We have received the following information from Iraqi friends who have initiated a campaign now that the constitutional committee has been formed. Their demands will be sent to the committee, to urge them to affirm the Personal Status Law and to remove Article 41 from the Iraqi constitution.

Iran: Citizenship rights in Iran - one step forward, many more to take

It was reported late in September 2006 that for the first time in Iranian history an unprecedented law had been passed in the parliament to "offer" Iranian citizenship to children born to Iranian mothers and non-Iranian fathers.

UPDATE: Iraq: Campaign to affirm Personal Status Law and remove Article 41 from the constitution

Iraq: Fight for the rights of Iraqi women

The new Constitution threatens to restore "Islamic Law" and with it a dismantling of the rights of Iraqi women.

Iraq: Women meet to protect rights in the Iraqi constitution

A brief report of a conference on women's rights and personal status law recently held in Baghdad.

لبنان: إعادة تفعبل حملة "جنسيتي حق لي ولأسرتي": من أجل مواطنة كاملة

South Africa: Fighting for gender equality

Interview with WLUML networker Rashida Manjoo about her experiences of the Gender Equality Commission of South Africa, conducted during the recent conference in Malaysia on 'Mechanisms and Legislation to Promote and Protect Gender Equality'.

"المطالبة بالمواطنة الكاملة" موقع جديد بالانجليزية على الشبكة العنكبوتية

الشوري السعودي يوافق علي منح الجنسية للمرأة الاجنبية المتزوجة من مواطن

Malaysia: 2nd issue of BARAZA! on Diversity of opinions: an Islamic legacy

A compilation of articles by key Islamic scholars on the subject of diversity of opinion in Islam. The main essay by Mohammad Hashim Kamali, explores the scope of diversity and disagreement among pre-modern Islamic jurists.