Survey Findings on the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women Living Under Discriminatory Muslim Family Laws
This paper, ‘Survey Findings on the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women Living Under Discriminatory Muslim Family Laws,’ is intended to better understand the gendered impacts of COVID-19, specifically how COVID-19 interacts with discriminatory Muslim family laws and the challenges faced by Muslim women who are subject to those laws. It is based on […]
Country Table – Palestine (Arabic)
لقد بدأت حركة مساواة في عام 2016، في إعداد الجداول الخاصة بالأُطر التشريعية، والسوابق القضائية، والسياسات، والإجراءات، والممارسات، في 12 مسألة تتعلق بقوانين الأسرة. ولقد أثبتت التعديلات التشريعية، في عددٍ من السياقات في الدول ذات الأغلبية المسلمة، أن تلك القوانين، مبنية بالأساس، علي الفقه، وليس الشريعة، لذا فهي ليست إلهية، أو .غير قابلة للتغيير، بل […]
Country Table – Palestine
In 2016, Musawah began compiling country tables containing an overview of legislative frameworks, available case law, policies, procedures and practices in the 12 principal areas of concern relating to Muslim family laws. Law reforms in multiple Muslim contexts proves that these laws are based on fiqh and thus not divine or unchangeable, and so must be reformed to address concerns and realities of people living today.
Musawah Thematic Report on Palestine (2018)
Musawah, the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, submits this Thematic Report on concerns related to women’s legal equality, personal status, and relevant matters for consideration by the CEDAW Committee in its review of the State of Palestine, reporting before the 70th Session of the CEDAW Committee in July 2018.
Musawah Oral Statement on Palestine (2018)
Musawah joins Palestinian women activists in raising concerns regarding discrimination faced by Muslim women under the different personal status laws applicable in Palestinian territories. We believe that such discrimination places additional challenges for Palestinian women in an already difficult socio-political context undermined by Israel’s protracted occupation.
حقائق من الداخل: تقرير عالمي عن المساواة في الأسرة المسلمة
جمع “حقائق من الداخل” تقارير مقدمة من منظمات وناشطات على المستوى الوطني من 30 دولة، ليقدم بذلك خلفية معلوماتية عن قوانين الأسرة وممارساتها في تلك البلدان، بما في ذلك تفاصيل أسباب كون المساواة في الأسرة ضرورية والفرص المتاحة لجعل المساواة في الأسرة ممكنة The ‘Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim […]
Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family
The ‘Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family‘ report, based on information provided by national groups, shows why equality in Muslim family laws is necessary and why it is possible in 30 countries. ‘Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family‘ is available in ENGLISH and ARABIC. Countries […]
Compilation of Resources Related to Women’s Rights in Muslim Family Laws
The Compilation of Resources outlines and brings together resources from Musawah’s holistic framework – Islamic teachings, universal human rights, national and constitutional guarantees of equality, and the lived realities of women and men – broken down according to specific topics related to women’s rights in Muslim family laws. Over the past two decades, research and […]
