Sri Lankan activists are at the center of a decades-long battle to reform the country’s Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act. When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami receded from Sri Lanka’s coasts, leaving a ...
On a humid morning in June 2006, a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka, buzzed with the activities of my nikah (Islamic marriage) ceremony. The men, I imagine, were huddled together around the marriage ...
Sri Lanka, Feb. 13 -- The Ministry of Justice and National Integration has called on the public to provide feedback and proposals for reforms to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) of 1951, as ...