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Voice | ‘I’m a second wife and I don’t care what you think’

27 August 2018 by Daptar

Makhachkala (Dominik K. Cagara /OC Media)

A 35-year-old woman from Makhachkala tells Daptar that becoming a second wife is a dream come true. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: daghestan, islam, makhachkala, marriage, women, women's rights

Girl abducted for marriage returned home in southern Georgia

12 January 2018 by OC Media

(bolnisi.ge)

A 20-year-old girl abducted for marriage has been returned to her parents’ house. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: bolnisi, bridenapping, forced marriage, georgia, kvemo kartli, marriage, women, women's rights

Divorce in Azerbaijan: women’s empowerment or stigma?

22 December 2017 by Nika Musavi

The Statue of a Liberated Woman in Baku (Runle031 /Pinterest)

Increased rates of divorce have become a topic of a public debate in Azer­bai­jan. Many see the reason in a changing place of women in society.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Gender Tagged With: Azerbaijan, divorce, marriage, stigma, stigmatisation, women

Life on the margins: Lesbian families in Azerbaijan

29 September 2017 by Nika Musavi

(OC Media)

The mere existence of lesbian couples in Azer­bai­jan is rarely talked about or acknowl­edged. Out of sight of the public and even queer rights activists, some women still live together and raise children as families.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Gender, Top Tagged With: Azerbaijan, family, lesbians, lgbt, marriage, queer, same-sex marriage

[Voice from Daghestan] ‘I can’t get divorced. I suffer for my children and my parents’

7 September 2017 by Daptar

(psycholekar.ru)

One resident of Daghestan told Daptar about the impor­tance of trust between parents and children and the need for sex education for teenagers.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: daghestan, family, marriage, sex education, women

[Voice from Chechnya] Twenty years with a kidnapper

23 August 2017 by Daptar

(kristof-blog.ru)

‘My family was destroyed together with what used to be Chechnya. My husband and I argued endlessly’. Love, abduction, war, and divorce — a Chechen woman told her story to Daptar.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: abduction, bride kidnapping, bridenapping, chechnya, forced marriage, kidnapping, marriage, war

Chechnya’s ‘family reunion commission’

14 August 2017 by Daptar

'How in Chechnya, author­i­ties force divorced spouses to come back together'
(Daptar)

At the end of July, Chechen author­i­ties reported on the progress of the Com­mis­sion on the Reuni­fi­ca­tion of Broken Families. They said that ‘in a short time’ they had managed to reunite 240 divorced couples. However, some experts say that such a com­mis­sion could only work with the help of pro­fes­sion­al psy­chol­o­gists and NGOs, to get to the real root of family conflicts. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gender, Top Tagged With: chechnya, domestic violence, islam, kadyrov, marriage, muslim women, russia, violence, women, women of chechnya, women's rights

Georgia’s parliamentary speaker says marriage definition to ‘reduce homophobia’

9 June 2017 by OC Media

Irakli Kobakhidze (parliament.ge)

Georgia’s par­lia­men­tary speaker has claimed that a recent ini­tia­tive to define marriage as a union between a woman and a man ‘will reduce homo­pho­bia’. Georgia’s current con­sti­tu­tion reads that ‘marriage shall be based upon equality of rights and free will of spouses’, without spec­i­fy­ing the gender of the spouses.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: constitution, equality, georgia, homophobia, marriage, queer, queer rights

Kadyrov speaks against civil registration of marriages; for polygamy

24 April 2017 by OC Media

Ramzan Kadyrov (rt.com)

On 19 April, Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov told Russian state news channel Russia Today that civil reg­is­tra­tion of marriages ‘destroyed families’ and was evidence of mistrust between spouses.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, civil registration, marriage, polygamy, ramzan kadyrov

Georgian rights groups back civil partnerships for same-sex couples

10 April 2017 by OC Media

Queer activists rally in front of Tbilisi City Court. 2016 (Mari Nikuradze/ OC Media)

Several prominent civil society organ­i­sa­tions in Georgia have come out in support of civil part­ner­ships for same-sex couples, while the gov­ern­ment is attempt­ing to amend the con­sti­tu­tion to explic­it­ly define marriage as a union between a woman and a man. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: georgia, human rights, lgbt, lgbt rights, lgbtqi, marriage, queer, queer activists, queer rights, same-sex marriage

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