WLUML named a top nonprofit in the field of violence against women!

WLUML is pleased to announce that we have been identified by experts as a top nonprofit working in the field of violence against women internationally!

In 2012, we are looking forward to developing projects in line with current global events, starting with work in areas such as political participation. We need your continued support in order to help us develop WLUML's work and offer WLUML's unique and expert perspectives to a wider audience. Please consider donating! In solidarity.

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WLUML has a number of upcoming vacancies at our international coordination office in London, please click here to see details.

Our Voices

6/2/2013

International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation

In keeping with WLUML’s work to end all forms of violence against girls and women, we would like to commemorate the 6^th of February, International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, by promoting the honourable work of our sisters and long-time WLUML network members in Gambia.

Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.

Latest News

11/2/2013

Kashmir: Sexual violence increases as justice under law is examined

6/2/2013

UN: International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation

31/1/2013

Rape: The Stereotyping of Indian Culture & Moving from ‘Protection’ to ‘Freedom’

28/1/2013

Egypt: The Gendered Body Public: Egypt, Sexual Violence and Revolution

24/1/2013

Mali: The Taliban of Timbuktu

21/1/2013

Iran: Iranian Single Women Might Need Father's Permission to Go Abroad

7/1/2013

Sri Lanka: The Imminent Danger Of The Execution Of Rizana Nafeek

7/1/2013

Somalia: Rape Flourishes In Camps For Internally Displaced, But Low Reportage

Latest Resources

11/2/2013

Victories over Violence: Ensuring Safety for Women and Girls

Violence against women and girls is both a global and local societal ill—global because its perpetrators and victims are in every corner of the world, and local because its forms differ from one place to the next depending on specific cultural, political and socio-economic circumstances.

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Latest Calls for Action

8/2/2013

Sudan: Crackdown on Nuba Women Human Rights Activists!

The crackdown on Nuba Women Human Rights Activists in Sudan is escalating. Khadija, Awatif, and Amira are all former or current detainees who have faced extreme psychological and physical torture on the hands of the Sudanese security forces!

Khadija Mohamed Badr, a Nuba woman, was put into detention in Kadugli on November 11, 2012 in the course of a large campaign of arrests of Nuba women in late 2012. Khadija was detained with more than 30 other women because of her suspected relationship with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army/North-SPLM/N and their activities in the Nuba mountains.

Campaigns

The Violence is Not our Culture (VNC) Campaign is a global network of organisations and individuals committed to end all forms of discrimination and violence against women being justified in the name of culture / religion. It was launched on 25 November 2007 with then UN Special Rapporteur on VAW Yakin Ertürk in Istanbul and has, since then, established its presence in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. It has been active in engaging with states and the UN human rights system to acknowledge the relentless misuse of culture and religion to violate women's basic rights and freedoms.

Programmes

The Women Reclaiming and Redefining Cultures: Asserting Rights Over Body, Self and Public Spaces Programme (WRRC), jointly hosted by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and the Institute for Women’s Empowerment (IWE), ran for two and half years starting October 2008 and ending June 2011. The aim of the programme was to enable women to repossess and reconstruct cultural resources (including ‘religion’ and ‘tradition’) to claim rights, empowering them vis-à-vis those who use disempowering cultural/religious discourses to dis-empower women and deny women’s rights.

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