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Statement of Solidarity and Call to Action in Support the People of Sudan

Our Statement of Solidarity is also available in Arabic: بيان مشترك للتضامن والدعوة للعمل ودعم السودانيين

The Musawah movement, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa and fellow human rights activists (NAGAAD Network – Somali and Somaliland and Islamic Relief Development Agency – South Sudan) are concerned about the escalating violence and instability in Sudan.

We are deeply concerned about the violence being targeted at civilians protesting against authoritarian rule. We are

Muslim feminists in India, Sri Lanka push for divorce rights

Laws on divorce vary in different countries, intimately bound with women’s rights and access to justice. In many countries where Muslim communities are the minority, there is gaping inequality between men and women in their access to divorce and release from marriage.

“These discriminatory divorce laws don’t come from the scripture, because we have three chapters [in the Koran] where talaq procedures are elaborately laid down,” said Noorjehan Safia, founding member of a Muslim women’s organizat

In Malaysia, the fate of a peat forest hinges on a powerful state official

Selangor, on the western coast of peninsular Malaysia is the country’s most populous and prosperous state as well as one of its most highly urbanized. Amid this sprawl, just 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of central Kuala Lumpur, lies the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR), a rich peatland forest home to more than 2,000 Indigenous people as well as rare species like the meranti bunga hardwood tree, the Malayan sun bear and Langat red fighting fish.

Originally gazetted as a customary fore

Caste and the cult of masculinity in India

On September 14, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was brutally gang-raped by four men in Hathras village in India’s largest state, Utter Pradesh (UP). She clung to life for two weeks, suffering from multiple gashes on her tongue and fractures all over her body, but finally died in a hospital in Delhi.

To make matters worse, the local police refused to cooperate with the victim’s family when they asked to see her face one last time. Instead, the police hurriedly cremated her body in the dead of night i

Beijing's iron fist puts an end to HK's autonomy

The past few weeks in Hong Kong have been dreadful, to say the least, especially after the controversial national-security law came into full force on July 1.

The once-semi-autonomous territory came to grips with a new wave of arrests under the new law, drafted by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC), the top state organ in China. Writers and activists scrubbed their presence online – with some fleeing Hong Kong in fear of state-sponsored persecution – and a cloister

Malaysia stays silent on Covid-19 threat to Rohingya

On April 16, a boatload of 200 Rohingya refugees arriving on the Malaysian coast were instantly turned away by the Malaysian Air Force, refusing to let them off the boats and escorting them back to the sea, with some food in the name of “humanitarian aid.”

Malaysia has been under a strict lockdown since March 18 in an effort to slow the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19. The Ministry of Home Affairs, which oversees detentions and prisons, over the past few weeks has won plaudits for enfo

Facing persecution at home, Ahmadiyya Muslims find refuge in Manila

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The Philippines is home to hundreds of refugees who identify as Ahmadiyya Muslims, a sect of Islam that's constantly under attack in Muslim-majority countries. Less than 30 of them struggle to make a living in Metro Manila.

MANILA, Philippines– For decades, followers of the Ahmadiyya faith, a minority sect of Islam, have fallen victim to laws that target them as non-believers in Pakistan.

Nationalism and racial classification in Hong Kong

Fatima Qureshi speaks to Ansah Malik, a civil rights activist about how she, a fifth-generation Hong Konger resists the city’s nihilistic attitude towards racism

Twenty-one years after the British colonial administration handed Hong Kong over to a one-country-two-systems policy under China, minority groups continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised.

As a semi-autonomous territory, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) adopts an independent rule of law that claims to guarantee ba