Sentence examples for personal status code from inspiring English sources

Tunisia had objected to these on the grounds that they conflicted with its nationality code and its personal status code.

The country's Personal Status Code, enacted soon after independence to protect the rights of women, enshrined in law protections concerning marital, property, and workplace rights.

Ghannouchi also pledged to retain the well-regarded personal status code, which guarantees rights for women – among the most progressive in the Arab world – and which secularists had feared was in jeopardy.

Moroccan women have succeeded in pushing the national conversation before, whether it was on personal status code law reforms or demanding a change in archaic laws – and they can do it again.

He also stressed that Ennahda accepts gender equality, enshrined in Tunisia's Personal Status Code under Mr Ben Ali, as "an acceptable interpretation within Islam".

It is true that Tunisia's new constitution promulgated in early 2014 reinforces women's rights and it safeguards the rights won by Tunisian women by referring to the Code du Statut Personnel (Personal Status Code) of 1956.

In Israel, Christians come under 10 personal status codes: Latin Catholic, Melkite, Maronite, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Chaldean, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox and Armenian.

Although Haïdara sided with Dicko to block the reforms of the Personal Status and Family Code in 2009, his political interventions have been sporadic and ambiguous.

In August 2009, the Canadian government and other donors pressed the Malian parliament to change the country's conservative Personal Status and Family Code.

Editor's note and apology: In this piece, we originally said that Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Nahda party, opposes the country's liberal code of individual rights, the Code of Personal Status, and its prohibition of polygamy.

IN OUR briefing last week on women and the Arab awakening ("Now is the time"), we said that Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia's Nahda party, opposes the country's liberal code of individual rights, the Code of Personal Status, and its prohibition of polygamy.