Title: Rights & reality : on the legal reality faced by women in Arab countries as exemplified by matrimonial law

Authors: Barakat, Bushra A.

Place: Eschborn

Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)

Year: 2007

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Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: women's rights, muslim women, family law, customary law, arab countries

Abstract: This publication focuses on the legal reality faced by Muslim women in Arab countries as exemplified by matrimonial law. It highlights examples of discrepancies between legal wording and social practice, which is to say between what the law says, and the reality of how it is actually applied.

URL: http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/07-1486.pdf

Document type: Portal