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October 25, 2016
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October 24, 2016
If the Board fails to put reason above emotion, the only possible conclusion will be that wittingly unwittingly it is playing the BJP’s game.
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Muslim Personal Law is hot news these days. Statements after statements are being issued from the Muslim Personal Law Board on one hand and the BJP leaders on the other concerning the issue of the triple talaq...
October 24, 2016
The Supreme Court today passed an order directing the trustees of the Haji Ali Dargah Trust to act on the July order of the Bombay High Court granting women equal access, on par with men to the iconic Haji Ali Dargah in Worli, Mumbai.
The trustees asked for two weeks time to act on the verdict. Take four weeks, the apex court ruled while warning that failure to implement the order after...
October 23, 2016
One in three women around the world currently experience gender-based violence. Harmful practices such as trafficking, forced marriage, domestic violence and female genital mutilation occur both in public and in private spaces.
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One in three women around the world currently experience gender-based violence. Harmful practices such as...
October 22, 2016
The News Minute has got an exclusive copy of the report that sent shockwaves in Kerala assembly.
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The shocking report on sexual abuse of elderly women presented by Kozhikode South MLA MK Muneer on Wednesday in the Kerala Assembly is the result of a painstakingly prepared report by a handful of human right activists, after a secret...
October 22, 2016
As the dust surrounding the issue of abolition of triple talaq and reform in Islam refuses to settle, another altercation took place on Friday in Govandi, (Mumbai), where local women running a signature campaign against the controversial practice of instant divorce were allegedly ill-treated and abused verbally by some of the locals.
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Women activists from...
October 22, 2016
On 20th October a demonstration was held at Arts Faculty in north campus of Delhi University. Attended by more than a hundred students from universities all across Delhi and outside, predominantly women, it was a protest against the members of the political outfit ABVP for their alleged harassment of the students on 23rd September night, when the group had organized a Night March. On the...
October 21, 2016
For all the 22 years of his young life, Ajith (name changed to protect identity) has had to hide his sexual preference for male partners. The management graduate, who works at a hotel in Chennai, comes from Kambam, a small Tamil Nadu village.
Participants attend a gay pride parade, to promote gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights, in Mumbai. A recent study found that of 8,549 men...
October 21, 2016
It is time for the Muslim community to introspect on how things have come to such a pass. Practices like triple talaq, halala and polygamy, steeped in patriarchal and medieval narratives, can hardly be regarded as just and fair.
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In the background of a bunch of writ petitions filed before the Supreme Court by some Muslim women’s organisations and individual victims...
October 20, 2016
With the annual national conference of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) scheduled to be held in Kolkota next month, imams from mosques across India are to be directed to create awareness among Muslims through sermons every Friday against the currently prevalent triple talaq (instant divorce) practice. They will are also to teach Muslims the rights granted to women in Islam and the...