RT @K_IngalaSmith: Impassioned call for ally-ship from Pragna Patel "We need our sisters in the women's movement to support us, not to speak for us, not to be afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. Secularism is a feminist issue." ...
RT @EavesCharity: Quite ridiculous that still find self quoting Mike o Brien home office minister in about 1999 "multicultural sensitivity is no excuse for moral blindness" re abuses against women in pseudo name of religion. @SBSisters
RT @EavesCharity: And as @SBSisters said, the more you provide latitude to one politicised religious group the more you open doors for all politicised religious groups and it is the women and non conformist who suffer. @MaryamNamazie @SBSisters ...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: Echoed by @MaryamNamazie 'Treat all minority women as equal citizens with the same rights as everyone else.' #OneLawForAll ...
RT @_laurarainsford: Thankyou @SBSisters @One_Law_for_All @RehmanYasmin @YehudisFletcher, Uzmaa so powerful. Highlighting vital importance of requiring civil marriage to prevent women being deprived of rights. Set rise of religious only marriage ...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: Hear, hear. Pragna Patel "The base of our (minority women's) citizenship as women, is civil and human rights, not religion." #OneLawForAll ...
RT @nia_endingVAWG: 'India secures women's rights by requiring all marriages to be registered within one month, the UK doesn't,' says Uzmaa, a woman left with nothing after 10 years of 'marriage' and three children after she was deceived into ...
RT @nia_endingVAWG: Powerful event, participants highlight india and Pakistan better protection for women than uk. this consultation going wrong direction. Can have spiritual satisfaction but you must have civil recognition to safeguard women. ...
RT @ShamMarriage_UK: Pragna from @SBSisters emphasis the importance of Government & the Law Commission in recognising harm has been done & to afford women their right to have their Nikkah or Sham Marriage annulled & void due to coercion, ...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: Such good speakers, THANK YOU @SBSisters and @MaryamNamazie for an informative and thought provoking webinar, always great hearing Pragna Patel, @GitaSahgal and @RehmanYasmin and tonight hearing for the first time (for me) Uzmaa ...
RT @ShamMarriage_UK: Moving testimony from Uzma who was coerced & controlled into having an Religious Only Marriage. This doesn’t only affect Usma, but her three young children. Offenders take advantage of severe immigration control & hostile ...
RT @nia_endingVAWG: "Men use the hostile environment as a tool to abuse women and deprive them of their rights.... they do this quite deliberately" says @GitaSahgal #OneLawForAll
RT @nia_endingVAWG: "The protection of the state and the right to have a marriage recognised by my religion should not be mutually exclusive." says @YasminGun #OneLawForAll
RT @K_IngalaSmith: Important point from Pragna Patel "We're not saying that the state should recognise religious marriage but that where there is an injustice in the context of a religious marriage, the state should remedy that injustice." ...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: .@RehmanYasmin "The British state has elevated imams to a status and with power they would never have had in my family's country of origin, leaving women exposed to fundamentalist forces and creating a hierarchy amongst people that ...
RT @EavesCharity: Hearing shocking testimony re failings in marriage law @SBSisters #onelawforall @MaryamNamazie ...
RT @K_IngalaSmith: "We should object to the state outsourcing the protection of women's rights - particularly minority women's rights - to religious bodies." Pragna Patel @SBSisters #OneLawForAll ...
Thank you to everyone joining us for this evening’s webinar. SBS Director Pragna Patel explains that many women who have a religious only marriage find themselves ‘left high & dry’ after separation, by their partners, by their communities & ...
We are delighted to see so much interest in this evening’s important webinar on women’s rights in marriage law. We have now extended the meeting capacity due to demand. Please register here & RT: https://t.co/FrCw5N...
RT @MaryamNamazie: Over 100 people registered for 28 Jan webinar on Religion, Marriage & Minority Women’s Rights in Family Law. Join some of greatest women's rights campaigners in Britain - Pragna Patel of @SBSisters @GitaSahgal of #OneLawForAll ...