Muslim Women’s Rights Under Bangladesh Law: Provisions, Practices and Policies Related to Custody and Guardianship

Sara Hossain is a barrister practising at the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and with Dr. Lynn Welchman is Co-Director of the CIMEL/INTERIGHTS ‘Crimes of Honour’ Project. She has worked on a number of cases of abduction of British / Bangladeshi women by their parents for the purposes of forced marriage and has written and spoken widely on forced marriage. From 1997 to 2003, she was the Legal Officer for South Asia at the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS), London.