by admin_HRWF | Mar 29, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Austin Ramzy NY Times (28.03.2019) – https://nyti.ms/2YyfHSs- When Brunei announced in 2013 that it was bringing in harsh Islamic laws that included punishments of death by stoning for adultery and gay sex, the move was met with international protest....
by admin_HRWF | Dec 17, 2018 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
On Thursday evening, after two days of man hunting, the police found and shot down Cherif Chekatt, the man responsible for the Strasbourg attack on Tuesday, in which three people were killed and over a dozen were injured. During two long days, the right to life...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 3, 2018 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Since September 2017, Tunisian women are free to marry non-muslims By Alessandra Bajec The New Arab (25.09.2018) – https://bit.ly/2NZWSGd – One year after scrapping of a ban on marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim partners, Tunisia...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 8, 2017 | Freedom of Religion and Belief, Uncategorized
AFP (21.11.2017) – http://bit.ly/2yOEM0y – On Greece’s rural border with Turkey, a sizeable Muslim minority has lived for decades, regulating their family affairs under Islamic sharia law, a legacy traced back to century-old treaties. Now, the...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 19, 2016 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Can women-run Islamic courts bring gender justice to India’s Muslims? One group that is training India’s first class of female ‘qazis,’ or Islamic judges, thinks it can. By Emily Feldman The Daily Beast (18.10.2016) – http://thebea.st/2erttyH – From...
