BANGLADESH: 'Will I Get My Dues … Before I Die?' - Harm to Women from Bangladesh’s Discriminatory Laws on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce

This 109-page report documents how the country’s discriminatory and archaic personal laws impoverish many women and girls at separation or divorce, and trap some women and girls in violent marriages because they fear destitution. Current laws deprive women and girls of an equal right to marital property. The limited entitlements these laws offer women and girls are poorly enforced by family courts and local government arbitration councils. Female-headed households and women and girls facing domestic violence struggle to access critical state support and social assistance. Together, these problems mean there is scant economic protection or security for women and girls when marriages break down. 


For a press release on the report, click here

pdf: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/09/17/will-i-get-my-dues-i-die-0

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