Religion, Marriage and Minority Women’s Rights in Family Law - Thu 28 Jan 18:30 – 20:00 GMT

[NonnyMouse1337]

Southall Black Sisters and One Law for All invite you to a webinar on marriage law in the UK and the need for changes to give minority women justice. It takes place against the backdrop of the Law Commission’s review of marriage laws in the UK.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-religion-marriage-and-minority-womens-rights-in-family-law-tickets-135927652267

Webinar: Religion, Marriage and Minority Women’s Rights in Family Law
Thu, 28 January 2021
18:30 – 20:00 GMT

This webinar will discuss how the law as it stands does not recognise the experiences of many minority women who are abused, deceived or coerced into having religious marriages only. It will also call for a law that requires all religious marriages to be registered and for a religious marriage to be deemed void where women are coerced, deceived or threatened into only having a religious marriage.

Bump. This evening.

Twitter thread from Southall Black Sisters summarising key points -
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1354865384801902592.html

Other tweets:

twitter.com/nia_endingVAWG/status/1354873193853497354?s=20
RehmanYasmin questions the timing of the Law Commission consultation on marriage reform, including religious-only marriages, at a time when the specialist women's sector is extremely stretched and so less able to make a robust response #OneLawForAll

twitter.com/K_IngalaSmith/status/1354875122474225665?s=20
RehmanYasmin "The British state has elevated imams to a status and with power they would never have had in my family's country of origin, leaving women exposed to fundamentalist forces and creating a hierarchy amongst people that was never there." #OneLawForAll

twitter.com/K_IngalaSmith/status/1354879646509240322?s=20
Important point from Pragna Patel "We're not saying that the state should recognise religious marriage but that where there is an injustice in the context of a religious marriage, the state should remedy that injustice." #OneLawForAll (re Akhter v Khan case)

twitter.com/nia_endingVAWG/status/1354883196484255745?s=20
Powerful event, participants highlight india and Pakistan better protection for women than uk. this consultation going wrong direction. Can have spiritual satisfaction but you must have civil recognition to safeguard women.

twitter.com/nia_endingVAWG/status/1354869077899153409?s=20
'India secures women's rights by requiring all marriages to be registered within one month, the UK doesn't,' says Uzmaa, a woman left with nothing after 10 years of 'marriage' and three children after she was deceived into entering a religious only marriage. #OneLawForAll

twitter.com/K_IngalaSmith/status/1354885059057233923?s=20
Impassioned call for ally-ship from Pragna Patel "We need our sisters in the women's movement to support us, not to speak for us, not to be afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. Secularism is a feminist issue." #OneLawForAll

Wish I'd realised this was happening Nonny - it sounds superb. Do you know if the recording will be available at any point?

MerchedCymru yes I think they mentioned on Twitter that a recording of the event will be up soon. I will keep an eye out for it and post it here.

For anyone wanting to know more about the One Law For All campaign, this is their website - onelawforall.org.uk/

Thanks Nonny.
I'll check out the campaign and share with our members.