Bangladesh rules women need not say if virgins on marriage certificates
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh’s top court has ruled that women need no longer declare if they are virgins on marriage certificates after a five-year legal battle by women’s rights groups trying to protect women’s privacy and potential humiliation. Marriage laws in the Muslim-majority country in South Asia had required a bride had to state […]
Win for women’s rights as UK puts mothers’ names on marriage certificates
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation British couples will be able to include their mothers’ names on their marriage certificate under a change in law hailed as a step forward for women’s rights on Wednesday. Church of England leaders also praised the change, which passed into law this week, saying the previous system demeaned women and was out […]