Iran Bill to Ease Polygamy Angers Women A bill that would allow Iranian men to take additional wives without the consent of their first wife has angered women and the country’s top justice official, who say it would undermine women’s rights and could be a government attempt to more deeply enshrine its strict Islamic interpretation ...…
Tanzania is located in the eastern part of africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique. Tanzania’s population is multi-ethnic and multi religious. The official languages of the country are Swahili or Kiswahili and English. It adheres to the republican form of government. It wasn’t easy for me to gather Tanzania’s laws, regarding polygamy. I visited the ...…
Yemeni women: Polygamy faces off spinsterhood ________________________________________ Amira Olaya And Yemen Times Staff The practice of polygamy was and still is the convention in such an Islamic and Arab country as Yemen. It used to be more common and practiced in rural areas where women were accustomed to being second, third, or forth wives. Even ...…
Ministry bans polygamous marriages for foreigners The Interior Ministry is taking a stand against foreigners residing in Turkey who marry more than one spouse in accordance with what may be their own national laws. The ministry noted that polygamy is at odds with Turkish family law, saying, “This is in anathema with our public order.” ...…
Chechnya: President calls for polygamy See the entire interview here (in Russian).Tuesday, April 07, 2009 Chechnya: President calls for polygamy See the entire interview here (in Russian). The President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov thinks there is nothing bad about polygamy. “We have more women than men here, in Chechnya, and all women need to be ...…
Polygamy Law Irks Iraq Kurds By Afif Sarhan, IOL Correspondent Many Kurds dismiss the law as a violation of their religious and personal right. (Reuters) ARBIL — Though they have already been voted into law by the provincial parliament in autonomous Kurdistan, many people believe that the new restrictions on polygamy run counter ...…
Indonesia is planning a crackdown on illegal polygamous marriages and will ask all Muslim couples to undergo pre-wedding marriage courses, an official says. Religious affairs ministry official Nasaruddin Umar told AFP the government was concerned about rising rates of divorce, especially the increasing numbers of women who are leaving their polygamous husbands. According to Indonesian ...…
I have a tidbit of polygamy 411 to share with you: “More than 1,000 British men are thought to have more than one wife. Although bigamy is illegal in the UK, those who moved there after marrying more than one woman in Islamic countries are allowed to remain in polygamous partnerships-and can even claim benefits ...…
