East Africa

Kenya: Protest the death threats against human rights defenders

Women Living Under Muslim Laws is gravely concerned to learn of death threats brought against our friend and colleague, Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki. She and her colleagues have been receiving death threats because of their human rights work and statements during the current crisis in Kenya.

Dossier 27: Why bring Islamic personal laws into the public space? Episodes from Tanzania

Traditionally, an analysis of women and their status considers the public and private domain. The public domain recognizes ‘the other’, the collective in human relationships. It is, therefore, an area of public interest, subject to public scrutiny where human relationships are prescribed by some public authority, mainly the state. This connotes a notion of sameness and, or uniformity in treatment or application between groups and individuals in a collective entity. The private domain, on the other hand, is an area of private influence, closed from public interference.

Dossier 14-15: Multifondamentalisme à l’Ile Maurice

Cependant, M. Ramalingum n'a pas donné une image assez nette de la situation générale à l’Ile Maurice, ce qui est regrettable, car une bonne connaissance du contexte mènerait à une condamnation encore plus totale de toutes les attaques contre la liberté d'expression à l'Ile Maurice.

Dossier 14-15: Multi-Fundamentalism in Mauritius

The attacks by Muslim fundamentalists against Mr. Namassiwayam Ramalingum and against L'Indépendant, the newspaper he is editor of, were accurately described and rightly denounced in Index 3/1995. But Mr. Ramalingum has not provided a clear enough picture of what was going on in general in Mauritius. This is a pity, because knowing about the context helps towards a more thorough condemnation of all the attacks on free speech in Mauritius.

Mauritius has seen vast changes over the past fifteen years.

Dossier 3: Support our campaign for one law for all women

Dear Sisters,