Femin Ijtihad

Femin Ijtihad works to assist Afghan Women and Human Rights Organisations in the research and production of information and educative materials on Gender in Islam/Islamic Law. 

Femin Ijtihad was founded by Natasha Latiff in 2007. It is now executed by a team of law students in Warwick University and has branches and independent committees attached to highly prestigious Universities in New York (NYU, Columbia and The New School) and in Singapore (National University of Singapore). 

From August-December 2009, Natasha Latiff will be travelling to Afghanistan to perform a needs assessment, and speak to women's rights organisations in Kabul. At the end of the stay, FI will produce a report on the extent to which women's rights organisations utilise the Islamic framework to raise awareness, train and campaign for women's rights in Afghanistan.

The FI Team is in discussion with a number of Afghan Organisations regarding the products we could create for them using our research database.

• Nadia Ibrahim and Marge O'Leary  attended the Global Equality Conference, Musawah in Kuala Lumpur as representatives of Femin Ijtihad in February 2009.
  

• Natasha Latiff and Tamara Last joined Bill Clinton, big thinkers and NGO's in the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference 2009 in Austin Texas in February.

• Nadia Ibrahim travelled to Jakarta and Yogjakarta in Indonesia on a regional conference to conduct a study-visit of women's rights groups and NGO's promoting pluralism within Islamic thought.

• Natasha Latiff, Tamara Last and Juhana Begum held a meeting with Womankind, Women for Women International, Oxfam and Afghan Aid to discuss how FI's products can be assimilated into their programmes.