Servile marriage 2012, para. 70
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- In societies in which women are considered vulnerable because they have no male protectors, the levirate, a custom by which a man may be obliged to marry his brother's widow, can be used to expose a widow to mental, physical and sexual abuse in the name of tradition. Most recently, the practice has been highlighted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women as an issue to be addressed in the Congo (CEDAW/C/COG/CO/6, para. 15).
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personas afectadas
- Women
- Año
- 2012
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 70
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