Examples of using Polygamous unions in English and their translations into French
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such as bride-kidnapping, polygamous unions and early marriage,
according to background characteristics showed that 9 per cent currently married men are in polygamous unions.
The Committee also urges the State party to make efforts to eliminate the causes that lead to polygamous unions and develop strategies targeted at parents
Men who wish to forge polygamous unions have to declare their competency in providing for all his wives and children financially before
States parties should discourage and prohibit polygamous unions, in accordance with general recommendation No. 21,
The Committee is also concerned that polygamous unions are not uncommon,
may enter into polygamous unions when such unions no longer have any legal standing.
While recognizing the legal situation that forbids polygamous unions, the Committee urges the State party to review the vulnerable situation of second
Guinean Civil Code(Article 315), it is estimated that approximately half of Guinean women are in polygamous unions(1), and approximately half of heads of households in the local area are engaged in polygamous unions 2.
often in polygamous unions. She recalled that polygamy had major psychological impacts on the children born to such unions. .
Guinean Civil Code(Article 315)(1), it is estimated that approximately half of Guinean women, and as many as two thirds of the households in the study area are in polygamous unions 2.
ensuring that the economic rights of women already in polygamous unions are adequately protected in accordance with the Committee's general recommendation No. 29(2013);
that measures would have to be adopted to prevent religious leaders from facilitating polygamous unions and to ensure that the courts took the issue seriously.
Many accounts also show that the consent of the woman in a polygamous union is obtained through threats
The children are used as a bargaining tool for favours from the husband especially where there is a polygamous union.
she has expressly given consent to possible polygamous union.
Please provide examples of cases where women successfully claimed annulment of a marriage on the basis of a forced or unforced polygamous union and please indicate what steps are being taken to ensure that women know about their right to refuse a polygamous marriage.
thus giving women the possibility of restricting their husbands' right to end the marriage or to enter into a polygamous union.
Polygamous unions, especially in the Northern region,
practices that allow for polygamous unions.