"The number of women who dare to file for divorce and separation is very limited, and restricted only to Kabul and a few major cities," said Fawzia Siddiqui, a member of parliament.
UNICEF congratulated the government of Madagascar on two new laws to reinforce child protection, including increasing the legal age of marriage to eighteen years.
Many Ugandans, especially from western, northern and eastern Uganda, take pride in bride price. However, the people of Tororo district, through Mifumi Project, recently filed a petition in the Constitutional Court seeking to abolish it.
Women in Nepal’s minority Muslim community are increasingly contesting through the courts the divorce settlements imposed on them by their husbands. The women say they are the victims of an abuse of Islamic law by their husbands.
The definition of "victim" has also been expanded so that men can also file rape charges against a woman or another man, a move applauded as a breakthrough by gay rights activists.
