In the absence of a response from the government, women’s groups call for boycott.

As we reported here, earlier this month an unprecedented number of women’s rights campaigners and organisations from Britain and abroad submitted a letter to Theresa May, at that time Home Secretary, raising serious concerns about the government’s ‘independent review’ into Sharia courts in Britain launched on 26 May 2016.

The letter said that the limited scope of the review/inquiry and its inappropriate theological approach would do nothing to address the discriminatory effect and intent of the courts on private and family matters – areas where, arguably, the greatest human rights violations of minority women in the UK take place.