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[fund] promotion and application of religious laws

International: Book review - Apostasy in Islam
This book is an impassioned case against the dominant Muslim view on the punishment for apostasy.
Canada: Response to Marion Boyd’s report on the Arbitration Act
The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) expresses disappointment in Marion Boyd’s report on Ontario’s 1991 Arbitration Act - which the former NDP Government, with Ms. Boyd as a Cabinet minister made law.
Canada: Shari'a law is a danger to women
The report released in December 2004 recommending the use of sharia law in Islamic family disputes in Ontario should send a shiver down the spines of women across the country.
Nigeria: Details of Daso Adamu's case
On the 9 December 2004 an Upper Sharia Court in Ningi, Bauchi state, discharged and acquitted Daso Adamu of a death sentence by stoning.
Nigeria: Update on the case of Daso Adamu
Daso Adamu has been discharged and acquitted.
India: Debating Muslim Women and Gender Justice by Yoginder Sikand
Feminist demands are routinely dismissed by religious conservatives as a ‘western’ ploy to promote dissension.
Nigeria: L'adolescente condamnée à la lapidation fixée sur son sort
Une adolescente nigériane enceinte, condamnée à mort par lapidation pour adultère par un tribunal coranique, connaîtra son sort mercredi, après le jugement qui sera rendu par une juridiction d'appel islamique à Dass, dans le nord du pays.
Nigeria: Update on the case of Daso Adamu
Daso Adamu's case was argued on 3rd November 2004.
Nigeria: Update on the case of Hajara Ibrahim
Hajara Ibrahim's case was argued on October 27th 2004.
Nigeria: Update on the cases of Hajara Ibrahim and Dasso Adamu
More information about the cases of two women sentenced to death by stoning in Bauchi.
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