Marriage guardianship: Why the deathly silence? By Asiff Hussein View(s): View(s):One wonders why the proposed amendments to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) have not addressed the issue of marriage guardianship? It is a very basic human right that a grown-up woman should have the discretion to contract a marriage of her own liking. Why, because the only channel Muslim women would have recourse to, to contract a marriage of their choice, would be deprived them. Morocco which once had some very discriminatory laws against women including marriage guardianship reformed its Mudawana Code of Family Law under King Mohamed in 2004 giving top priority to women’s free choice in marriage.

Source: Sunday Times November 19, 2016 19:33 UTC