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Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act

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Constitutional Reform, Issues, Religion and faith

MMDA: Personal Narratives – 3

This is the third in a series of video interviews conducted by sister publication highlighting the difficulties faced by women under the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA). Article 16 of the constitution states that existing…

Maatram Maatram on 12/21/201601/17/2017
Constitutional Reform, Issues, Religion and faith

MMDA: Personal Narratives – 2

This is the second in a series of video interviews conducted by sister publication highlighting the difficulties faced by women under the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA). Article 16 of the constitution states…

Maatram Maatram on 12/14/201612/21/2016
Constitutional Reform, Issues, Long Reads, Religion and faith

Sri Lankan personal laws between justice and freedom – A value based perspective

No century in recorded history has experienced so many social transformations and such radical ones as the twentieth century (Peter, 2016). Over this period, without any exception every human culture has been…

M.H.M. Firdous M.H.M. Firdous on 12/01/201612/01/2016
Culture, Identity, Issues, Religion and faith

A Podium to Spit Venom

Two days ago a video was posted on YouTube where a man named Abdul Razik belonging to an extremist sect that calls itself ‘Sri Lanka Tawheed Jamath’ (SLTJ) makes a speech in Sinhala in…

Farweez Imamudeen Farweez Imamudeen on 11/08/201611/08/2016

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