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UN rights experts encourage Tunisia to follow up lifting of marriage ban with more action on equality
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UN rights experts encourage Tunisia to follow up lifting of marriage ban with more action on equality

September 25, 2017 External news digest

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GENEVA (26 September 2017) – Tunisia is being encouraged to do more to tackle discrimination by a group of UN experts* who have welcomed the abolition of a ban on Muslim women marrying men who are not of the same faith. “Tunisia has now taken a further step towards achieving its constitutional guarantee of equality between women and men,” said the experts in response to the lifting of the ban on 13 September.

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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 26 September 2017. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.

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