Joint Call to Support Muslim Women in Sri Lanka
Our Work
Musawah facilitates access to existing knowledge and creates new knowledge about women’s rights in Islam. We seek to apply feminist and rights-based lenses in understanding and searching for equality and justice within Muslim legal tradition.
Musawah works to strengthen our sense of community and common purpose through capacity building and outreach to activists and CSOs from Muslim contexts throughout the world.
Musawah seeks to amplify women’s voices at the regional and international levels and raise the visibility of initiatives advocating for equality and justice in the Muslim family.
Musawah communications activities raise the visibility of Musawah and the work of Musawah Advocates, popularize the Musawah Framework for Action and Musawah publications, and share linkages and knowledge among broader communities
Our Resources
This thematic paper examines economic and parental rights and responsibilities in Muslim families using the holistic Musawah approach, which integrates Islamic teachings, international human rights principles, national guarantees of equality, and realities of women’s and men’s lives today.
A global report with stories and findings from the Global Life Stories Project, in which teams from nine countries (Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, Gambia, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom) documented women’s life stories to better understand their experiences with qiwamah and wilayah.
This toolkit, which introduces key elements in the Musawah Framework for Action and key messages, is a tool for building knowledge and mobilising for equality and justice in the Muslim family.
Equality
Equality for women is the defining issue for this century and a solution to global threats like conflicts, climate change and poverty. The Muslim world is front and center of this issue based on decades of regression. Musawah is a beacon of hope to Muslim women and men who know that their faith is not based on the repression of half the population.
Feminism
God cannot be God if God is unjust.
Patriarchy
The Quran did not invent or introduce patriarchy.
Islam
A major lesson from being a part of the feminist women’s movement is recognising that Islam is not precious, it is not brittle, it will not break.
Le Coran
Le Coran est par nature un texte réformateur, un texte qui sème des principes éthiques tels des graines, pour les laisser germer et pousser selon la luminosité, la fertilité du sol, et la chaleur de l’endroit où elles sont semées. Ainsi le message du Prophète Mohammed a établi des principes éthiques égalitaires accompagnés de mesures graduelles pour l’établissement, à terme, d’une société plus juste.
Quran
Tawhid means Allah is One Unique Unity. The Tawhidic Paradigm means Allah Unites pairs and opposites into this sacred unity, with reciprocity, equality and dignity.
Role Model
My grandmother is my role model both as a human being and a Muslim. Women like her have managed to struggle peacefully through a male dominated society, to fully seize their place and to unfurl their lives as they should be.