In New Delhi, All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board is trying to improve the status of Muslim woman in the new “Shariat Nikahnama” that would allow women to divorce their husbands when they have affairs with other woman and to stop the practice of allowing men to divorce their wives via SMS or emails.
Currently, a woman can only seek divorce if she is forced by her husband to indulge in unnatural sex or if her husband has AIDS. For the full story, click here.
Of course, it may be better than the recent divorce in Saudi Arabia where a man simply grabbed the announcement system mike and pronounced himself divorced in a mall — leaving his wife and children for good, click here.