{"id":1645,"date":"2015-09-30T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1645-malawi-advocates-laws-to-protect-hijabi-women\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:00:11","slug":"malawi-advocates-laws-to-protect-hijabi-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1645-malawi-advocates-laws-to-protect-hijabi-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi advocates laws to protect Hijabi women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">A cross-section of Malawi Muslim community has been pushing for enactment of laws<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>A cross-section of Malawi Muslim community has been pushing for enactment of laws to protect hijabi Muslim women who are victimized in public and work places in the southern African country.<\/h4>\n<h4>Fatima Ndaila, National Chairperson of Muslim Women Organization (MWO) said that there have been reported cases of worst forms of victimization and harassment towards veiled Muslim women in public and work places, because there are no laws to protect them, the perpetrators go scot free, while their victims continue to suffer in silence.<\/h4>\n<h4>Ndaila added that some heads of education institutions don\u2019t allow school Muslim girls to put on Hijab while at school campus.<\/h4>\n<h4>Renowned women\u2019s rights activist, Emma Kaliya, while denouncing the level of victimization, appealed to all sectors of the Malawi society to join hands in supporting laws to safeguard the rights of veiled Muslim women.<\/h4>\n<h4>Meanwhile, the Malawi government has since condemned the victimization describing it as &#8220;clear violation&#8221; of freedom of worship.<\/h4>\n<h4>Islam is the second largest religion in Malawi after Christianity. 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