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Realizing Muslim Women’s Rights in Sri Lanka – When Is The Right Time? – Shreen Abdul Saroor

Sri Lanka Brief - 09/10/2017 0

Image: Muslim women in Sri Lanka; Credit: Abdul-Halik Azeez. The Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) which was enacted in 1951 has been perceived primarily as...

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Sri Lanka: Article 16(1) – Repeal it or continue to render Muslim women and girls as unequal citizens

Sri Lanka Brief - 28/12/2016 0

Hyshyama Hamin and Hasanah Cegu Isadeen. In November, we completed ‘Unequal Citizens: Muslim women’s struggle for justice and equality in Sri Lanka’ – a one-year...

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Muslim Women: Second-Class Rights Holders in Sri Lanka’s Quazi System

Sri Lanka Brief - 08/12/2016 0

Image courtesy of Abdul-Halik Azeez. By Shreen Abdul Saroor* Despite volumes of research and recommendations for reform, Sri Lanka’s Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act of 1951...

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‘I Live in a Lie’: Saudi Women Speak Up

Sri Lanka Brief - 01/11/2016 0

Image by the writer: Soon after “Ladies First” was screened, I met these Saudi students in Washington Square Park in New York. Hend, on...

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Article 16 of the Constitution, That Makes Muslim Women Second-Class Citizens, Must Go! – WAN

Sri Lanka Brief - 20/08/2016 0

( A group of Muslim students visiting Galle Fort ©s.deshapriya) Statement by Women's Action Network. Constitutional reforms pointless, if fundamental rights does not apply to all...

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Sri Lanka: A Muslim businessman detained under PTA over FB posts.

Sri Lanka Brief - 19/01/2021 0

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday informed Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court that it had obtained a detention order from the Defence Ministry to interrogate...

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Ranjan Ramanayake is a clean, honest politician and 4 years’ rigorous imprisonment is unprecedented and exceptionally severe – M.A. Sumanthiran, M.P.

Sri Lanka Brief - 19/01/2021 0

I want to flag one or two issues concerning the responsibility of the parliament in this regard. But before I do that I am...

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Sri Lanka: Four years prison term for contempt of court violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Sri Lanka Brief - 18/01/2021 0

On 12 January 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka found S. V. R. P. P. A. R. L. S....

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Sri Lanka to appoint one more commission before the upcoming UNHRC session & has turned down an offer to co-sponsor a new resolution.

Sri Lanka Brief - 17/01/2021 0

Image: The issue of enforced disappearances has never been properly investigated in Sri Lanka. President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is to appoint a new Commission of Inquiry...

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Sri Lanka: A Muslim businessman detained under PTA over FB posts.

Ranjan Ramanayake is a clean, honest politician and 4 years’ rigorous imprisonment is unprecedented and exceptionally severe – M.A. Sumanthiran, M.P.

Sri Lanka: Four years prison term for contempt of court violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Sri Lanka to appoint one more commission before the upcoming UNHRC session & has turned down an offer to co-sponsor a new resolution.

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Ranjan Ramanayake is a clean, honest politician and 4 years’ rigorous imprisonment is unprecedented and exceptionally severe – M.A. Sumanthiran, M.P.

Sri Lanka: Four years prison term for contempt of court violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Sri Lanka to appoint one more commission before the upcoming UNHRC session & has turned down an offer to co-sponsor a new resolution.

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