RELEVANT LAWS, POLICIES and OFFICIAL REPORTS

Muslims Marriage and Divorce Act 1951

Sri Lanka (General) Marriage Ordinance 1907

2021 REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO SUGGEST AMENDMENTS TO THE MUSLIM MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ACT

2021 Advisory Committee report on MOJ website

2018 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO THE MUSLIM MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ACT (JSM Committee)

PUBLICATIONS | RESEARCH | REPORTS

SRI LANKAN

STUDY: ‘Unequal Citizens’ – Muslim Women’s Struggle for Justice and Equality in Sri Lanka (2016)- Hyshyama Hamin and Hasanah Cegu Isadeen

STUDY: Inside the Quazi Courts System in Sri Lanka (2021) – Ermiza Tegal and Hasanah Cegu Isadeen for CHANGE Humanitarian Organisation

‘Women Claiming Rights and Spaces – Activism to Reform Muslim Personal Law in Sri Lanka’ (2014) – Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum (MWRAF)

‘Is Equal Justice Possible?’ (2014) – Safana Gul Begum and Islamic Women’s Association for Research and Empowerment (IWARE), Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

‘Muslim Family Law in Sri Lanka: Theory, Practice and Issues of Concern to Women’ (1999) – Chulani Kodikara, Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum (MWRAF)/Women Living Under Muslim Law (WLUML).

‘The Quazi Court System in Sri Lanka and Its Impact on Muslim Women’(2011) – Saleem Marsoof and Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum (MWRAF)

Muslim Matrimonial Law – Some Grey Areas (2012) – Saleem Marsoof

‘Muslim Law of Marriage Applicable in Sri Lanka‘ – Saleem Marsoof

Muslim personal law in Sri Lanka: Some aspects of the law on family relations (2000) – Savithri Goonesekera

Muslim Women’s Issues in Sri Lanka (2017) – MPLRAG Shadow Report to CEDAW Committee

Issues and Challenges faced by Muslim Girls in Sri Lanka (2018) – MPLRAG Shadow Report to Child Rights Committee

‘Hidden Truths: Discrimination of Muslim Women in The Quazi Courts in Puttalam and Batticaloa’ (2016) – (Researcher: Hyshyama Hamin)

Hidden Truths (2016) – Gender-based violence against Muslim women in Puttalam and Batticaloa – (Researcher: Hyshyama Hamin)

Parallel Systems of Personal Laws in Sri Lanka – (1997) – Ramani Muttetuwagama and Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum (MWRAF)

Report to the Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (2011) – Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum (MWRAF) Sri Lanka

Module for Training of Quazis (2011). Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum (MWRAF)

GLOBAL

Shariah, Fiqh and State laws: Clarifying the terms – Musawah 2017

Muslim Family Law – What makes reforms possible? – Musawah 2017

‘Women as Judges‘ – Sisters in Islam, Malaysia