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Tag: Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act

Muslim women in India have welcomed Tuesday's historic Supreme Court judgment on the practice of triple talaq. Photo: Reuters
Posted inOpinion

Muslim feminists in India, Sri Lanka push for divorce rights

by Fatima Qureshi August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

Laws on divorce vary in different countries, intimately bound with women’s rights and access to justice. In many countries where Muslim communities are the minority, there is gaping inequality between men and women in their access to divorce and release from marriage. “These discriminatory divorce laws don’t come from the scripture, because we have three […]

A veiled Muslim bride waits for the start of a mass marriage ceremony in Ahmedabad. Photo: Reuters / Amit Dave
Posted inEgypt, India, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, World

Questions remain over bill to criminalize triple talaq

by Atiya Anis December 27, 2017
The Indian Supreme Court in New Delhi. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inIndia, Pakistan, South Asia

Supreme Court bans Muslim instant divorce custom

by Asia Times staff August 22, 2017February 18, 2020
Muslim women take part in a protest – OBJECTING to proposed laws to raise the minimum age of marriage for Muslim girls from 12 to 16 years, in Colombo, November 3, 2016. Photo: AFP / Ishara S. Kodikara
Posted inAT Finance, Malaysia, Middle East, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Muslim women in Sri Lanka still second-class citizens – by law

by Munza Mushtaq April 5, 2017April 6, 2017

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