Cassandra Balchin is the Chair of the Muslim Women's Network, UK. She was a journalist based in Pakistan for many years and was part of the network Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML). She is a freelance researcher, writer and human-rights advocacy trainer.
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Published in: 50.50Development and religion: ambivalent policy, grounded practiceDevelopment policy seems to swing between a Marmite-style love-it-or-hate-it approach to religion. Yet practice on...
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Published in: 50.50Jewish. Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers...
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Published in: 50.50Having our cake and eating it: British Muslim women
The arguments about family law rights in Britain's Muslim communities are bound up with racism and sexism. Those who...
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Published in: 50.50Sitting in judgement: for men only?
As the move to appoint women judges in Muslim countries gathers pace, how far is this a guarantee of access to...
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Published in: 50.50A rose and a duck: labelling religious fundamentalisms
When it comes to religious fundamentalisms women's rights activists say Shakespeare was wrong: the way we name...
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Published in: 50.50Progressive male Muslim preachers: oxymoron or reality?In their rush to find suitable allies to help control 'extremism', states as well as non-governmental organisations...