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According to human rights campaigner Gita Sahgal, "there is active support for sharia laws precisely because it is limited to denying women rights in the family. No hands are being cut off, so there can't be a problem …"

UCL INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL LAW & MAISON FRANCAISE D'OXFORD

PRESENT
Law, Religion & Education
Religious Freedom in the Sphere of Education  

Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin (Director, UCL Institute of Global Law)

8/9 October 2010

Venue:
Maison Francaise d'Oxford
2-10 Norham Road
Oxford
OX2 6SE

A Protestant primary school teacher who suffered discrimination because of her religion has been awarded £8,250 at an industrial tribunal.

Supreme court judges predicted that "more and more" gay and lesbian refugees are likely to seek protection in Britain after a landmark legal ruling recognised the rights of asylum seekers.

Five supreme court justices said gay and lesbian asylum seekers should not be expected to "exercise discretion" in their home countries to avoid persecution.

A man who ripped a veil from a Muslim woman's face as she walked though Glasgow has been jailed for two years.

A TEENAGER has been convicted of religiously aggravated criminal damage after smashing a window at a Salvation Army hostel.

Two Saudi clerics have declared Muslim women are exempt from wearing full veils in France, which is planning to ban them, but added they should avoid visiting it as tourists.

Authorities in Iran have issued an arrest warrant for an acclaimed Iranian lawyer and arrested his wife and brother-in-law over his involvement in the case of a woman sentenced to death by stoning