June 7, 2010New online tool helps legal professionals assist victims of forced marriageThe British Government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) has launched an online resource to help legal professionals working with […]
June 1, 2010Al Jazeera’s female talent resigns over modesty demandsFive female Al Jazeera presenters have resigned after being accused of “dressing immodestly”: the five presenters, along with […]
May 13, 2010Roadshow warning over forced marriages to startThe first UK roadshow aiming to stop South Asian youngsters being forced into marriages abroad is due to […]
April 16, 2010Australian Judge warns of honour killing difficultiesAustralian courts face difficulties in dealing with honor killing crimes and forced marriage cases, Chief Justice of the […]
April 11, 2010Met allows Islamic protesters to throw shoesScotland Yard has bowed to Islamic sensitivities and accepted that Muslims are entitled to throw shoes in ritual […]
April 3, 2010Criticism does not exclude Muslims from the political processIn an open letter titled “Criticism does not exclude Muslims from the political process,” a group of prominent […]
March 23, 2010Baroness Deech: Risks of cousin marriage not discussed for fear of offending MuslimsBaroness Deech, Professor of Law at Gresham College in London, argues the risks of cousins marrying are not […]
March 14, 2010Fears over non-Muslim’s use of Islamic law to resolve disputesThere are concerns in the UK over a growing number of non-Muslims using Islamic law to resolve legal […]
January 28, 2010Forced marriage victims’ calls going unansweredCalls for help from forced marriage victims are being ignored because the British Government has cut funding to […]
January 25, 2010Single British Asian mums losing their ‘honour babies’Some single British Asian women are being forced by their families to give up their children as so-called […]
January 17, 2010West Midlands (UK) cops foil honour killingsPolice have foiled more than 25 potential honour killings in the West Midlands in the last year, the […]
January 14, 2010Website to tackle honour violenceVictims of forced marriage or honor violence can now turn to online counselors for help: a website, called […]
January 9, 2010Social workers failing women facing forced marriage, says reportAlmost half of the 86 females who were granted civil safeguards in cases of forced marriage over the […]
January 8, 2010Social workers failing women facing forced marriage, says reportChildren as young as nine have been rescued from forced marriages under new special protection orders in the […]
January 6, 2010Protesters charged for anti-army display refuse to stand for judgeSeven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for […]
January 6, 2010Cardinal says Christian Europe is to blame for IslamisationCzech Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, the Archbishop of Prague, said Muslims were well placed to fill the spiritual void […]
December 22, 2009Man urged son to rape cousin, 12A man who encouraged his teenage son to marry and rape his 12-year-old cousin has been jailed: the […]
December 20, 2009UK fails to halt female genital mutilationHundreds of British schoolgirls are facing the terrifying prospect of female genital mutilation (FGM) over the Christmas holidays […]
December 20, 2009Shetty: Stop tiptoeing around ‘honour’ killingsIn a column titled “Stop tiptoeing around ‘honour’ killings” published in the Guardian, Poorna Shetty writes: “While I’m […]
December 18, 2009Honour killing: why did police send Tulay Goren home to die by her violent father?Tulay Goren, the Muslim schoolgirl murdered by her father in an “honour killing” in the UK, repeatedly told […]