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Record Item Year: 2015
Unequal and Unprotected: Women’s Rights under Lebanese Personal Status Laws
Delivering on Women Farmers’ Rights
Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, 2015
By Kat Oak
An Act to make provision for marriage, divorce and family relations between spouses and between unmarried couples, their welfare and maintenance, and that of their children; and for connected matters.
Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Bill (2015)
Child Care and Protection Act 3 of 2015
(GG 5744) brought into force on 30 January 2019 by GN 4/2019 (GG 6829) The Act is amended by the Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act 1 of 2018 (GG 6562). However, that amending Act has not yet been brought into force, so the amendments made by it are not reflected here.
Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India
This is a data source for the Research Consortium's Inheritance Rights for Daughters Infographic – Greater educational attainment.
Strengthening Economic Rights and Women’s Occupational Choice: The Impact of Reforming Ethiopia’s Family Law
"Abstract: Summary This paper evaluates the impact of strengthening legal rights on the types of economic opportunities pursued. Ethiopia changed its family law, expanding wives’ access to marital property and removing restrictions to working outside the home. This reform was initially rolled out in the two chartered cities and three of Ethiopia’s nine regions, allowing for a difference-in-difference estimation of the reform’s impact. The analysis finds that women were significantly more likely to work in occupations that require work outside the home, employ more educated workers, and in paid and full-time jobs where the reform had been enacted. Keywords: property […]
Reforma el artículo 81 del Código Civil, Decreto Ley 106, artículos: 81 [Spanish]
Civil Code reform – Raising the minimum age to marry. Reforma el artículo 81 del Código Civil, Decreto Ley 106, artículos: 81, relativo a la aptitud para contraer matrimonio y establece que la edad mínima para contraer matrimonio es de 18 años; 82, relativo a la excepción a la edad mínima y la establece en 16 años, cuando concurran razones fundadas; 84, relativo a la autorización judicial para que los menores de edad puedan contraer matrimonio; 177 en el que prohíbe la unión de menores de edad.
Ecuador Constitution, 2008 (rev. 2015) [English]
Ecuador's Constitution of 2008 with Amendments through 2015