Polygamy is prohibited by law in Turkmenistan and legal framework does not provide for polygamous marriages under civil law nor customary law. Despite...
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The legal status of polygamy varies widely around the world. Polygyny is legal in 58 out of nearly 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being...
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Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία polygamía, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married...
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trafficking in Turkmenistan Ministry of Internal Affairs (Turkmenistan) Polygamy in Turkmenistan Prostitution in Turkmenistan Supreme Court of Turkmenistan Turkmen...
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marriages that had been contracted in other countries. Under Russian law, de facto polygamy or multiple cohabitation in and of itself is not a crime. Due...
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of Turkmenistan-related articles is below Emblem of Turkmenistan - Flag of Turkmenistan - National symbols of Turkmenistan - Outline of Turkmenistan -...
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Marriage law (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2023)
In India, only Muslims are allowed to practice polygamy. Polygamy, taking the form of polygyny, is most common in a region known as the "polygamy belt"...
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Burkina Faso (redirect from Food security in Burkina Faso)
mutilation, forced marriages, and polygamy. He served as the country's president until 1987 when he was deposed and assassinated in a coup led by Blaise Compaoré...
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Nigeria (redirect from Sport in Nigeria)
marriage of girls under 18 was introduced on a federal level in 2008. There is rampant polygamy in Northern Nigeria. Domestic violence is common. Women have...
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Mali (redirect from Sport in Mali)
officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over 1,241,238 square kilometres...
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Bahrain (redirect from Science and technology in Bahrain)
[æl bɑħˈreːn] ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago...
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organisation in India. It released a draft on 23 June 2014, 'Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act', recommending that polygamy be made illegal in the Muslim...
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Application of Sharia by country (redirect from Sharia in Israel)
considered a reference in secular family law across the Arab world, bans polygamy and extrajudicial divorce. Sharia courts were abolished in 1956. Secular inheritance...
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and even some considered polygamy and Mu'ta (Shia temporary marriage) as undesirable. Iranian women played a significant role in the Persian Constitutional...
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indictment for polygamy; therefore, a law against polygamy is not legally considered to discriminate against a religion that endorses polygamy. When their...
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Somalia (redirect from Natural resources in Somalia)
Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the...
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Demographics of Russia (redirect from Rural life in Russia)
Moldova, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, from poor areas of China, and from Vietnam and Laos. Temporary migrant workers in Russia consists of about...
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Median kingdom (category Former empires in Asia)
Armavir and Arinberd in Armenia, Altıntepe, Van and Tille Höyük in Turkey, Qizkapan and Tell Gubba in Iraq and Ulug Depe in Turkmenistan. The archaeological...
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Cameroon (redirect from Africa in miniature)
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast...
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White Sun of the Desert (category Films set in Turkmenistan)
shore of the Caspian Sea (modern Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years...
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Saudi Arabia (redirect from Social problems in Saudi Arabia)
testimony of one man equals that of two women in family and inheritance law. Polygamy is permitted for men, and men have a unilateral right to divorce their...
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Issues impacting Women in Mauritanian society include female genital mutilation, child marriage, and polygamy. The practice of Leblouh (Arabic: البلوح...
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Israeli Jews (redirect from Judaism in Israel)
citizens of Israel in the Galilee region. In 2003, the Israeli daily Ma'ariv published an article entitled, "Special Report: Polygamy is a Security Threat...
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Guinea (redirect from Tourism in Guinea)
Clubs 3 times, in 1972, 1975 and 1977, while Horoya AC won the 1978 African Cup Winners' Cup. Polygamy is generally prohibited by law in Guinea, but there...
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Tunisia (redirect from Tunisia in the middle ages)
outlawed the practices of polygamy and repudiation and a husband's right to unilaterally divorce his wife. Further reforms in 1993 included a provision...
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polygamy. The state confiscated all privately owned land, in theory eliminating property discrimination. Today, women in North Korea participate in a...
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rights for women, including expanded divorce and custody rights and reduced polygamy. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, women's rights have been restricted...
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phenomenon of de facto polygamy, or so-called "second wives" (二奶 èrnǎi in Chinese), has reemerged in recent years. When polygamy was legal, women were...
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to outlaw polygamy. The Court investigated the history of religious freedom in the United States and quoted a letter from Thomas Jefferson in which he...
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Theology attached to the Tunis University in 1958. A Personal Status Code made law in 1956 prohibited polygamy, raised the age of marriage for girls to...
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