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Abortion legislation (general circumstances)
- Prevalence of legislation permitting abortion, according to reasons (Global)
Abortion legislation (specific circumstances)
- Prevalence of legislation permitting abortion in cases of fetal impairment (Global)
- Prevalence of legislation permitting abortion in cases of incest (Global)
- Prevalence of legislation permitting abortion in cases of rape (Global)
Child labour
- Ratification of the ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (Global)
Children in armed conflict
- Ratification of Option Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (Global)
Consent to marriage
- Ratification of the Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages (Global)
Discrimination against women
- Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Global)
FGM laws
- Existence of laws against female genital mutilation (Global)
Free education legislation
- Legal guarantees for free education (Global)
Legal age for marriage for men
- Legal age for marriage for men (Global)
Legal age for marriage for women
- Legal age for marriage for women (Global)
Minimum age for work
- Ratification of ILO Convention concerning the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (Global)
Rape laws
- Existence of legal protection against rape (Global)
Rights of the child
- Ratification of Convention on the Rights of the Child (Global)
- Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (Global)
Sexual discrimination
- Enforcement of constitutional or legal anti-sexual discrimination clauses (Global)
- Existence of constitutional or legal anti-sexual discrimination clauses (Global)
Spousal rape laws
- Existence of legal protection against spousal rape (Global)

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Legal age for marriage for women

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Years

	No legal minimum
	12-13
	14-15
	16-17
	18+

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UN Statistical Division

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Compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division from information provided in the periodic country reports to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), available from the websites, http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw.html and http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/ (accessed June 2009), supplemented by data published by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, “Results of the Eighth and Ninth United Nations inquiry on population and development”.

Temporal extent

1997-2006

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Legal age for marriage for women

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Years

Date accessed

March 25, 2009

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