Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
International humanitarian law dictates the rules combatants should follow – with a central tenet that ‘civilians should not be targeted’
Amid the horror of the attacks by Hamas on Israel and the response by the Israeli military in Gaza, there have been calls for both sides to abide by (...)
This year, India’s Supreme Court freed millions of gay Indians from the fear of being imprisoned. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the Supreme Court there upheld the right of freedom of expression even as the territory is increasingly silenced by China.
And that was just in September.
These cases (...)
It was legal recognition that broke the rule of impunity that the more power a man has, the more sex he can exact from those with less power.
Women’s voices recounting sexual abuse being heard, believed, and acted on is a real change. The accountability for sexual harassment seen today, (...)
How and where is criminalisation of protest a growing trend? Who are the actors at play? And what are the dangers signs we should be looking out for?
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Anna Norman (AN): Is criminalisation of protest a growing trend in Europe and around the world? Can you talk about ways (...)
The lawyer President and Commander-in-Chief’s verbal order for soldiers (AFP) to shoot armed rebels (NPA) on sight makes for interesting legal discourse, including for academic purposes, were it not more importantly a real life-and-death matter. The lawyer Vice-President has weighed in that (...)
How a Left position regarding the Catalonia referendum on 1 Oct 2017 could present itself juridically and politically.
The Catalonia referendum this Sunday will become part of the history of Europe, possibly for the worst of reasons. I will not discuss here the substantive questions, which (...)
Over 300 abused women have signed a statement opposing Sharia courts and religious bodies, warning of the growing threat to their rights and to their collective struggles for security and independence.
We are women who have experienced abuse and violence in our personal lives. Most of us (...)
There must be no religious arbitration in family matters. It leaves minority women vulnerable to control by fundamentalists
“We oppose any religious body – whether presided over by men or women – that seeks to rule over us.” So say more than 300 mostly Muslim women, but also others from (...)
On 12th December the trial of Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and Edouard Perrin – the two whistleblowers and the journalist who brought the Luxleaks scandal out into the open— opened again in Luxembourg. In June 2016, Edouard Perrin was acquitted but the Office of the Public Prosecutor of (...)
BRITISH ‘SUBJECTS’ DID NOT DESERVE LEGAL EQUALITY WITH THEIR COLONIAL MASTERS: INTERVIEW WITH MARIEME HELIE LUCAS ON SHARIA COURTS IN BRITAIN
Protest against Sharia in the United Kingdom 2014. Pic Credit: See Li/Wikimedia Commons.
British MPs on the Commons home affairs committee have (...)
In an Open Letter to the UK Home Secretary, hundreds of women’s human rights organisations and campaigners warn against a further slide towards privatised justice and parallel legal systems.
In 2015, the UK government announced that it would hold an independent inquiry into the operation (...)
In an Open Letter to Theresa May, hundreds of women’s human rights organisations and campaigners warn against a further slide towards privatised justice and parallel legal systems.
In 2015, the UK government announced that it would hold an independent inquiry into the operation of Sharia (...)
A large section of Muslim women has been demanding an end to triple talaq . It is time the AIMPLB gave up its opposition to this.
The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board has been mulishly opposed to abolishing triple talaq, which is a procedure a Muslim adopts to divorce his wife by (...)
Shayara Bano, an Indian Muslim woman was married to Rizwan Ahmad on 11th April 2002 and they have a son and a daughter from the wedlock. She was unilaterally divorced by her husband on 10th October 2015 vide a talaqnama (deed of divorce) wherein before two witnesses her husband pronounced the (...)
Women’s rights groups urge government to hold inquiry into Sharia ‘courts’ and the lack of access to justice
Open Letter to David Cameron
Press Release
On Thursday 10 December 2015, Southall Black Sisters (SBS), One Law for All, Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO), (...)
French President François Hollande’s reaction to the terrorist outrage that struck again at the heart of Paris has been to declare war — just as George W. Bush did in the face of “the mother of all terrorist attacks” that struck the heart of New York.
By doing this, the French president has (...)
SUZI WEISSMAN: The failure to find probable cause to indict the Staten Island cop who was caught on video choking an unresisting detainee (Eric Garner) to death has led to outrage and large protests around the country. Following so closely on the Ferguson Grand Jury non-indictment, the (...)
One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, the Centre for Secular Space, Nari Diganta and the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation have welcomed the Law Society’s withdrawal of their sharia wills practice note [[http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/news/press-releases/law-society-withdraws-sharia-s
The Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority withdraws its endorsement of the Law Society’s discriminatory practice note on Sharia wills.
Southall Black Sisters (SBS) and One Law for All welcomes the decision by the Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority (SRA), the regulatory body for solicitors, to (...)
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.
Over the past several decades, multinational corporate Goliaths have helped to write and rewrite hundreds of rules skewing tax, trade, investment and other policies in their favor. The extraordinary damage (...)
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