Marriage

Islam, Law Of The Land, Women’s Rights And Women’s Day In Pakistan March 8 comes and goes every year. Like every year, this year also seminars, […]

Maintenance Of Wives In Islam At the risk of sounding like a “conformist”, a “conservative” and maybe “recessive”, I wonder if we as a generation have […]

Forced Marriage And Conversion Stem From Institutionalized Intolerance Religious diversity forms the bedrock of civilized democratic state, however in Pakistan the right to propagate and freely […]

Revisiting The Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961 The Muslim Family Laws Ordinance (MFLO), 1961 was promulgated to, inter alia, safeguard matrimonial rights of women. To this extent, […]

South Korea Top Court Upholds Ban On Divorce Rights For Unfaithful Spouses The Supreme Court of South Korea upheld a law that forbids an unfaithful spouse […]

Uganda Supreme Court Bans Dowry Refund on Divorce Uganda’s Supreme Court ruled that the practice of refunding the price of the bride upon the dissolution of a […]

Although the sacred act of marriage has been given immense importance in Islam, both husband and wife have been given the right to dissolve the marriage if […]

Amra Bone, UK’s first female Sharia Council Judge has recently expressed astonishing views on Sharia marriage stating that, “The government cannot — ask Muslims not to […]

The Hindu Marriage Act Bill 2015 is meant to allow members of the Hindu community to register their marriages for the first time in the country. […]

Turkey’s Constitutional Court’s verdict has allowed couples to be religiously married without legally binding civil formalities. This has been protested by human rights and women’s rights […]