SEXIST LAWSBY: MARCELO AND MAURICIO

FLEMING COLLEGE

FATWA

•SAUDI ARABIA MAINTAINS ITS 1990 FATWA PROHIBITING WOMEN'S DRIVING OF AUTOMOBILES AS A SOURCE OF UNDENIABLE VICES

LEGALITY OF MARITAL RAPE•SEXUAL INTERCOURSE OR SEXUAL ACTS BY A MAN

WITH HIS OWN WIFE, (THE WIFE NOT BEING UNDER 15 YEARS OF AGE), ITS NOT RAPE.•INDIA HAS THE WORLDS HIGHEST NUMBER OF EARLY

MARRIAGES.

KIDNAPPER MARRIAGE•IN MALTA, A KIDNAPPER AFTER ABDUCTING A PERSON,

SHALL MARRY SUCH PERSON, HE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO PROSECUTION.•THIS MAY SEEM LIKE A STRANGE LAW TO SOME,

HOWEVER IS A REAL PROBLEM IN MANY COUNTRIES AND IT IS COMMON IN CERTAIN CULTURES.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WIFE

•IN NIGERIA, VIOLENCE BY A HUSBAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING HIS WIFE IS JUST FINE.

PERMISSION TO WORK•IN GUINEA WOMEN ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE A

SEPARATE PROFESSION FROM THAT OF HER HUSBAND IF HE OBJECTS.