Domestic violence and Muslim family laws
Australia: 'Tough laws to stamp out forced marriages and sexual servitude are being flagged to close a loophole that allows some crimes to go unpunished.'
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Brunei: 'Protection against domestic violence has been made possible following amendments to the Islamic Family Law Order and the Married Women Act.'
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Syria: 'A more conservative draft of the Personal Status Law was successfully blocked in 2009. But the current law remains, and articles in the penal code assure near impunity for those who commit violence against women.'
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Child marriages
Malaysia: 'SIS reiterates its stand in calling for the Government to end child marriage and raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 years for all Malaysians.'
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Yemen: ‘She was just 10 years old when she was married to a cousin who was three times her age. Now Reem Al Numery is divorced and fighting against child marriage. "When I tried to get a divorce they said I couldn’t, that I was too young."’
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Changing reform contexts
Bangladesh: 'Women actively living and reinterpreting Islam, looking to the essence of beliefs and teachings rather than to age-old cultural traditions, is an exciting trend.'
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India: India: Two Muslim women’s networks have emerged in India in the last twelve years: Muslim Women's Rights Network and Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan. Both challenge male-dominated institutions that have monopolized the Muslim community.
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Musawah research
CEDAW and Muslim Family Laws: In Search of Common Ground
This report examines OIC States Parties’ justifications for failing to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) with regard to family laws and practices that discriminate against women. Based on a review of reporting by 44 countries to the CEDAW Committee from 2005-2010, this report documents the trends identified, and presents Musawah’s responses based on its holistic Framework for Action. It includes recommendations to the CEDAW Committee for a deeper engagement and more meaningful dialogue on the connections between Muslim family laws and practices
and international human rights standards.
To request a hard copy, please contact us at musawah@musawah.org
Read ‘In Search of Common Ground’
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Musawah Events
Consolidating Musawah’s Strategic Direction
Over the past four years – two years in the planning and two years since the Global Meeting - Musawahhas held a number of meetings and produced several documents that outline our vision and strategies for change. The Musawah Secretariat would now like to bring all of these together, ensure we are all agreed on our strategic direction, and express this vision and strategies in one accessible document. This document will serve as a reference point for our strategic direction for the coming few years.
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Share your experiences – build our strategic direction!
Please contribute to this process by sending responses to all or any of the following questions through our Facebook page or by just emailing us before 28th February 2011. Your answers can be as long or short as you like:
- In your context, what political and social factors make your work on advocating for equality in the Muslim
family difficult?
- What strategies and approaches do you use for advancing women’s rights in the family?
- How do you think your involvement in Musawah supports your work on the ground?
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New look Vision and new Musawah logo
As you can see from the new look Musawah Vision and our new logo, we have been busy working on developing a clear visual identity for all Musawah publications and media.
While we were fond of the old logo, the additional colours in the new version will give us extra design options and freshens up our image. The new logo has been a particular hit with younger Advocates and those who are communications specialists. Many thanks to everyone who took part in the process of choosing the new logo.
We hope you enjoy the new format for Musawah Vision. Our aim has been to make it more accessible and more attractive for Advocates in the hope that we can make even better use of this quarterly resource in all our activism.
To liven up Vision further, we’d love to include your photographs and visuals. Please feel free to send us any photos you would like to share with the Musawah community, and also any suggestions you may have for improving Vision.
Musawah in the news
- 'Only a culture of change can halt misogyny', Ida Lichter, The Australian, December 17, 2010
- 'Let me, a Muslim feminist, confuse you', Mona Eltahawy, The Star, December 10, 2010
- Twitter: Mona Eltahawy tweeted on December 13, 2010: 'RT @netraKL Musawah: integrates Islamic teachings, univ hman rts principles, natl constitutionsl guarantees of equality, lived realities./
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International Advocacy
Musawah at CEDAW session in Geneva
Musawah was in Geneva in January 2011 during the 48th CEDAW session to engage with NGO activists involved in shadow reports, CEDAW Committee experts and OHCHR staff to advance Musawah’s international advocacy work. Bangladesh - and four countries with significant Muslim minorities - Israel, Kenya, South Africa and Sri Lanka - reported during this session.
Musawah urged NGOs and the CEDAW Committee members to challenge governments when they claim that ‘the Muslim community’ is not ready for change, used as an excuse for the preservation of discriminatory Muslim family laws.
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