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Justice For Sisters In Islam
Justice for Sisters in Islam is keen to support and empower the most vulnerable members in society. Justice for Sisters in Islam works hard to promote family justice and assisting Muslim women and children. Justice for Sisters in Islam is focused on promoting Resolution’s core values and code of conduct focused on Muslim women and children.
Over the pandemic, Justice for Sisters in Islam facilitated and organised awareness via the online platform to educate and assist victims. These sessions had a strong focus on Resolution’s core and Code of Conduct values which encourage victims to resort to using Resolution (members/accredited members).
2,500
Women assisted over the year
1261
Accessed support services through our website
1585
Women were able to seek protection
1142
Women and children were able to seek refuge services
Dr Naheed Ghauri – She is a qualified family law practitioner and having worked over 15 years and as a legal aid family law solicitor and partner before moving into private practice, she gained experience of family law, mediation and religious arbitration, representation before family courts, Shari’a Councils and in relation to private international law. She is also a qualified mediator and MCIARB qualifying soon to be an arbitrator. She is also the founder of a non-profit organisation Justice for Sisters which specifically assists victims/survivors of domestic abuse, in particular, Muslim women on a pro-bono basis. She developed the first AI platform for Muslim women and children in relation to domestic abuse and try to reach out of court resolutions, as well as representing Muslim women in relation to religious arbitration and Islamic (community) mediation.
She is also a partner with Max Planck Institute, Germany on a CUREDI project as an expert on analysing English legal judgments relating to family law, in particular, non-legally binding marriages. She is an Associate Research Fellow at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London and was a visiting research fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. She has also been a guest lecturer at Leiden university, Ghent university and conducted online teaching in Muslim family law. She regularly contributes to talks and lectures relating to family law and private international law. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Islamic Family Law and a guest editor for Oxford Journal of Law (special issues and awarded funding for this) and Religion and Journal of Law and Religion, Cambridge University Press.
She is currently completing two academic monographs with Routledge: Muslim Family Law and Domestic Abuse: An Integrated Islamic Arbitration and Mediation Model in England and Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming soon: Muslim Women and the Islamic Sharia Councils and a joint monograph with Professor Federica Sona and Dr Fouzia Azzouz, Muslim Women, Domestic Abuse and Sharia Councils: A Socio-legal Perspective.
In addition, she sits on the Resolution Cohabitation, Children, Domestic Abuse and International Law Committees. She has written chapters for Resolution’s International Guide on forced marriages, shari’a marriages and divorce: international perspective and FGM and a chapter on non-legally binding marriages for Resolution’s Cohabitation Law and Practice handbook published in July 2025.
She has also been involved in Cohabitation Consultation response by Resolution and now kinship consultation response to be prepared for the Law Commission. She has been a finalist in LexisNexis two award categories in 2025: customer focus award and legal supplier innovation award and also in 2025, a finalist in two Resolution award categories: equality, diversity and inclusion champion and Resolution out of court practitioner of the year in 2025. Also, a finalist in LexisNexis award, legal supplier innovation award 2026 and a Resolution EDI champion finalist in 2026 and a Resolution EDI winner 2026 in relation to family justice.
