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- Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan or BMMA ('Indian Muslim Women's Movement') is an autonomous, secular, rights-based mass organization led by Zakia Soman which fights for the citizenship rights of the Muslim women in India. The BMMA was formed in January 2011. The organisation is based in Mumbai. Over 30,000 members have been enrolled in the BMMA in 15 states, over the past six years. BMMA conducted a Study of Muslim women’s views on reforms in Muslim personal law— 'Seeking Justice Within the Family' across 10 states that revealed that an overwhelming 82% of the over 4,000 women who were surveyed had no property in their name and that 78% were home makers with no income of their own. “It is quite revealing that 95.5% poor women had not even heard of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, yet the government and the people go by the decisions taken by these self-proclaimed leaders of the Muslim community,’’ said Zakia Soman, co-founder of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan. The BMMA demanded a ban on the practice of 'Triple Talaq' (verbal divorce). It also petitioned the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Muslim Personal Law. Eventually, Triple talaq in India was banned. On 30 July 2019, the Parliament of India declared the practice of Triple Talaq illegal and unconstitutional and made it a punishable act from 1 August 2019. BMMA has backed Hindu women in the Shani Shingnapur Temple row. It released a draft on June 23, 2014, 'Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act' recommending that polygamy be made illegal in the Muslim Personal Law of India. BMMA also challenged the restrictions on women’s entry into the inner sanctum of the Haji Ali Dargah of Mumbai, and on 26 August 2016 after a three year legal battle, the Bombay High Court, allowed women entry and termed the ban unconstitutional. Noorjehan Safia Niaz, co-founder of the Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) does not support practices such as the hijab and believes that instances where complete strangers — young and old men, and once a younger woman — walk up to her in public and question her choice of dressing with impunity and audacity, violate her personal space. (en)
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- Women Empowerment, Poverty Reduction (en)
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- Zakia Soman, Noorjehan Safia Niaz (en)
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- Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan or BMMA ('Indian Muslim Women's Movement') is an autonomous, secular, rights-based mass organization led by Zakia Soman which fights for the citizenship rights of the Muslim women in India. The BMMA was formed in January 2011. The organisation is based in Mumbai. Over 30,000 members have been enrolled in the BMMA in 15 states, over the past six years. (en)
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- Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (en)
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