Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Subject "Marriage"
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Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
(CMI Insight 2016:4, Report, 2016-05-01)Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization to non-criminalization in the legal ... -
Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls’ Freedom to Choose
(Sudan Report SR 2017:3, Research report, 2017-09-01)Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects girls. Each year, 15 million girls are ... -
Legal Reform and Women’s Rights in Lebanese Personal Status Laws
(CMI Report R 2017:3, Research report, 2017-10-01)This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: ( I ) the alteration of the Sunni personal status law to allow mothers to keep ... -
Unfulfilled hopes. The quest for a minimum marriage age in Yemen, 2009–2014
(CMI Report R 2016:3, Research report, 2016-05-01)The project Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia ...