Statement by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) categorically condemns the killing of protesters and the extreme violence once again unleashed by the Iranian authorities against the people of Iran. We stand in...
Seventy-seven years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is deeply troubling that in 2025 we are still fighting for the recognition of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity. And this, even though the world finally acknowledged, at least since Vienna in 1993, that women’s rights are human rights, after...
The 1997 World Cup Pakistani Women’s Team with captain Shaiza Khan (seated, center), vice-captain Kiran Baluch (standing, far left) and Coach Jodie Davis (middle row, left). Courtesy of Kiran Baluch Access to sports is more than a matter of recreation; it is a question of rights, visibility, and equality. When women are excluded from sports...
WLUML Annual Report 2024 is here! Last year, we continued to build transnational feminist solidarity in the face of repression and war. From relaunching the Transformative Feminist Leadership Institute, advancing the Iranian Women’s Bill of Rights, and campaigning to end gender apartheid, to producing new feminist research, lectures, podcasts, and solidarity statements, our network has...
We at WLUML are deeply distraught by the attack of Israel and the United States on Iran and the spread of war and destruction that now has reached Iran, after Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. The escalation of expansionist imperialist war, builds on years of atrocities across the region under the eyes and aids of...
Structured to Silence: Why Online Abuse Is a Feminist Crisis By Maira Asif When women, transgender people, and religious minorities in Pakistan speak up online—whether to demand rights, visibility, or simply share their truths—the internet often answers back with abuse. But as a new research study shows, the harassment they face is not the result...
WLUML stands with the Women and Girls of Afghanistan in their message and urges global civil society to amplify their message! Download the statements here in English, Farsi and Arabic: A heartfelt Letter from women in Afghnistan to Sysian women (English) A heartfelt Message from Women in Afghnistan to Syrian Women (Farsi) Heartfelt_Letter to_Syrian_Women_Arabic-AE-fin3
