Recent attempts to amend Iraq’s Personal Status Law — a civil set of laws regarding family life — have sparked significant controversy. The proposed amendments pertain to issues such as the minimum ...

Recent hype surrounding Coptic divorce has brought back to the table the issue of a personal status law for Christians, with this month seeing the second draft for such a law submitted to the ...

Members of Iraq's Parliament asked the Federal Supreme Court on Wednesday to invalidate the previous day's session in which three bills were passed in one package, including amendments to the Personal ...

An open secret among women activists in the Muslim world is that they will not be really free until the personal status laws in Muslim countries are drastically revised, reformed or even debunked.

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