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Will outlawing 'instant divorce' advance justice for Muslim women in India?

  • Written by Z. Fareen Parvez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageActivists protesting against the recently banned triple divorce.AP Photo/Altaf Qadri

The Supreme Court of India recently struck down a specific divorce practice among its minority Muslims. The age-old practice known as “triple talaq” allowed a Muslim man to dissolve his marriage by uttering the term divorce three times, all at once.

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