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According to a very new law enacted in Afghanistan, it is legal to starve a wife who refuses sex. This is already a watered down version of the original bill that stipulates for a wife to have sex with her husband four days in a week. This law was signed just as Hamid Karzai was gunning for reelection. In Afghanistan, marital rape is legal. In Congo, [...]

A Saudi Arabian girl, 8, married to a 47 year old man by her father to clear off this debt was finally granted divorce. The plea for the divorce was rejected twice by the court in Saudi Arabia. It was reported that the girl was not even aware of her marriage to this man, who was her father’s friend. The marriage was not annulled twice when the mother [...]

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai recently signed a law that legalizes rape in marriage. When marital rape is a cause of disdain and concern all across the globe, here is one country where it is permitted by virtue of law. It is said that Karzai signed the law in his desperate bid to win the votes of fundamentalist groups of the country’s Shiite [...]