43. While offences against the social mores committed by women are zealously punished (whether contained in the Penal Code or not), the Penal Code provisions criminalizing forced marriages (of adult women) and the Civil Code provisions regarding the validity of marriages and divorce, which would constitute a legal protection for women against male arbitrariness, exist only on paper.
43. While offences against the social mores committed by women are zealously punished (whether contained in the Penal Code or not), the Penal Code provisions criminalizing forced marriages (of adult women) and the Civil Code provisions regarding the validity of marriages and divorce, which would constitute a legal protection for women against male arbitrariness, exist only on paper.