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Family Law Reform Resources
No matter what their current age, women who married before they were 18 are far more likely to report that they have no say in decisions than those who married later. For example, in Colombia, women who married young are 47% more likely to report having no say, compared to women who married later.
Advocacy Resources
- CEDAW and Muslim Family Laws In Search of Common Ground (2010, from Musawah for Equality in the Family)
- "Family Law Reform and Women’s Rights in Muslim Countries: Perspectives and Lessons Learned" Seminar Report 2010 (2010, from Rights & Democracy)
- Home Truths: A Global Report on Equality in the Muslim Family (2009, from Musawah, also in Arabic)
- Family Law Reform Challenges and Opportunities for WLP partner countries: in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, and Turkey.
- Model Family Law for the Maghreb region: "One Hundred Measures and Provisions for an Egalitarian Codification of the Personal Status Codes" (2005, from the Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité
Legal and Comparative Transnational Resources
- Overview of Muslim Family Codes by Country, Harvard Law
- Family Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions in the World, by Reynolds and Flores
- Selected Statutory Provisions of Muslim personal status legislation in Arab states (2007, Lynn Welchman, Women and Muslim family laws in Arab states: A comparative overview of textual development and advocacy, Amsterdam University Press)
- Islamic Family Law comparison : Legal profiles of countries applying Islamic family law (2002, Emory Law)
Country-specific Legal Resources: Constitutions, Family Laws, and Personal Status Codes
- Afghanistan: 2004 Constitution
- Algeria: 1984 Family law (in French), 2005 Amendment (in French)
- Bahrain: 2002 Constitution
- Brazil: 1993 Consitution
- India: 1996 Constitution
- Indonesia: 2002 Constitution
- Iran: Penal Code Excerpts Relating to Women; 1992 Constitution
- Iraq: 1951 Family Rights Law (in Arabic), 1976 Personal Status Law (in Arabic)
- Kenya: Family and Gender Law
- Kuwait: 1984 Personal Status Law (in Arabic)
- Lebanon: 1990 Constitution
- Malaysia1984 Islamic Family Law; 1994 Domestic Violence Act 521
- Mauritania: 1991 Constitution
- Morocco: 2004 Moudawana Family Code (also in Arabic and French);1992 Constitution
- Nigeria: 1999 Nigeria
- Philippines: 1977 Code of Muslim Personal Laws; 1987 Family Code
- Tunisia: 1956 Personal Status Code (in French)
- Turkey: 1998 Domestic Violence Law 4320; 2007 Constitution
- Zimbabwe: 2007 Constitution
Bibliographies on Muslim Family Law
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