Huwelijk in het nieuws

Tunisian women will be allowed to marry non-Muslim men legally for the first time in 44 years, after a controversial ban was lifted. Last month, 90-year-old president Beji Caid Essebsi argued that the ban violated Tunisia's constitution, and set up a female-led commission to revise the rules. Mr Caid Essebsi said he wants to create "total, actual equality between men and women citizens in a progressive way". 

 

Before the ban was scrapped, if a Tunisian woman wanted to marry a non-Muslim man, the man would have to convert to Islam and provide a certificate as proof. "Repeal of the decree was an excellent step forward in Tunisian women's decades-long quest to live as equal citizens under the law," Monica Marks, Tunisia expert at Oxford University, told The Independent. "Repealing the law has long been a priority for leading women's rights groups in Tunisia, and their activism helped lead to the repeal."

 

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/tunisia-musli...