In a letter to the editor of the Financial Times titled “Muslim women’s right to happiness under threat,” Kavita Ramdya criticizes the use of Sharia courts in the UK, writing: “For Sharia judges to question a woman’s motives for divorce and pressure her socially and financially to remain in an unfulfilling and possibly dangerous marriage is antiquated at best and deadly at worst.”
via:[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/47462064-aa36-11de-a3ce-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html]
Washington
Grade: C
Number of Women and Girls At Risk: 25,000
Status: Existing Legislation Needs Strengthening
Improve by adding: Prosecuting parents/guardian, felony offense