Equality and justice in the Muslim family

IWILAP has been breaking new grounds since its launch in 2013, bringing together activists, policy makers, and religious scholars to challenge the ways Islam is used to justify discrimination against women, and to re-centre the voices of women in Muslim contexts. IWILAP is creating change within Muslim legal tradition using two strategies: challenging the ways Islam is being used to justify discriminations against women in law and practice, and offering a new knowledge-based discourse and framework to advocate for equality and justice for women and marginalised groups living in Muslim contexts.
Since 2013,IWILAP has been researching Muslim family laws and practices that enforce de jure and de facto discrimination against women in various Muslim societies. Through our CEO & General Counsel, IWILAP together with MUSAWAH odcumentated the framework, case laws, policy, procedure and practice pertaining to 12 principal issues of concern with regard to Muslim marriages and family matters and administration of family laws in Uganda. The research involved filling out a table based on the 12 principal issues in family law that include: equality of spouses (or lack thereof), minimum age of marriage, women’s consent, women’s capacity, polygamy, violence against women in the family, divorce, women’s financial rights after divorce, custody of children, guardianship of children, nationality.