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External sources (not reviewed)

UNHCR underlines that a number of concerns remain, such as reports of women being subjected to human trafficking and forcedmarriages;of severe restrictions on movement, including the right to leave the country, which is criminalized under the Penal Code; violations of the fundamental principle of non-refoulement by neighbouring countries; and continued reports of severe punishments in cases of forced return to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Legislation was in place to address violence against women and girls and to enable women married to foreign nationals to pass on their citizenship to their children.

According to Bhutan’s citizenship laws, Bhutanese women who are married to non-Bhutanese do not lose their citizenship.

The Civil Status Code No. 9 of 2001 was amended to allow Jordanian women who are married to foreign men or are widowed or divorced to obtain a family book.

The Supplementary Slavery Convention prohibits any institution or practice whereby a woman, without the right to refuse, is promised or given in marriage on payment of a consideration in money or in kind to her parents, guardian, family or any other person or group; the husband of a woman, his family or his clan, has the right to transfer her to another person for value received or otherwise; or a woman on the death of her husband is liable to be inherited by another person.

Regarding the granting of nationality to children born by Libyan women married to foreigners, Code No. 24 of 2010, granting such children the right to acquire Libyan nationality, was currently in the process of being published.

The victim’s rights are further violated when she is forced to marry her rapist and enter a servile marriage.

Where an individual claims to have changed his or her name by marriage, common law relationships or any other mechanism, the employer should seek evidence of such a change.

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For example, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has noted the existence in India of devadasi, whereby a girl, usually a Dalit, is forced to marry a deity and forced to have sex with members of the temple (CERD/C/IND/CO/19, para. 18).

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The State party observes in this connection that these “individual” communications dwell on the general context in which the disappearances occurred, focusing solely on the actions of the security forces and never mentioning those of the various armed groups that used criminal concealment techniques to incriminate the armed forces.

means the account maintained by HEC through which the difference between the standard cost of fuels as agreed between the Government and HEC and the actual cost of fuels to HEC (“Fuel Cost Account Adjustment”) is captured and passed on to the consumers by way of rebates or charges.

In that regard, looking to the future, we hope that all developed countries will commit themselves to similar ambitious targets, that the cooperation mechanisms and agreements established to that end will not transfer theircosts to the developing countries, and that developing countries will have the will to contribute to the increasingly ambitious global mitigation effort.