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  • Closing the Gates to Education: Violations of Rights of Muslim Women Students in Karnataka.
    People’s Union of Civil Liberties
    People’s Union of Civil Liberties
    2023

    Beginning from December 31, 2021, when the Government Girls PU College, Udupi imposed an arbitrary restriction on girls wearing the hijab

  • Why Did Maternal Mortality Decline in Matlab?
    Deborah Maine, Murat Z. Akalin, Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty, Andres de Francisco
    Studies in Family Planning
    1996

    In 1991, an article on the Maternity Care Program in Matlab, Bangladesh, reported a substantial decline in direct obstetric deaths in the intervention area, but not in the control area. The decline was attributed primarily to the posting of midwives at the village level.

  • The Muslim Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 24 of 2013 (Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka

    The Muslim Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 24 of 2013, enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, introduces reforms to the legal framework governing marriage and divorce within the Muslim community.

  • The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019
    India

    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, is a landmark legislation in India aimed at addressing and prohibiting the practice of instant triple talaq, or talaq-e-bid'ah, within the Muslim community.

  • The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986
    India

    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, is a significant legal provision in India designed to address the rights and welfare of Muslim women in the context of divorce. This Act was introduced in response to the Supreme Court's judgment in the case of Shah Bano Begum v.