Harmony In Setif, Algeria

Echorouk Online Reports:

According to an instruction issued by the Algerian Religious Affairs Ministry, imams are not allowed to perform marriage services (to register a fatiha marriage) only if the marriage is registered in wedding registry office.

I thought they had already dealt with this situation. Apparently, there was a problem with marriages going unregistered which left the women unprotected in the case of divorce or death of her husband.

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NYT reports:

Women make up 70 percent of Algeria’s lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. Women dominate medicine. Increasingly, women contribute more to household income than men. Sixty percent of university students are women, university researchers say.

That’s really great to hear. Very inspiring and I just hope that it will give women a unified front when demanding thier rights in Algerian family law.

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