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"en.20020206.10.3-247"2
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"Question No 10 by Guido Podestà ():
The case of a thirty-year-old Nigerian woman, who was married at the age of 12 and has four children, the last of whom was conceived as the result of rape, for which she has been sentenced to death by stoning, arouses serious concerns regarding the situation of women in many African countries, including Nigeria.
According to Sharia law a married or divorced woman is guilty of adultery if she has sexual intercourse with another man, even if, as in this case, she is the victim of rape.
The political and military power established under undemocratic regimes entails control over the private lives of those subject to it. This control extends to the birth of children and hence women are more exposed to punitive and often inhumane laws.
Can the Council say what new steps it intends to take to ensure the abolition of practices which violate fundamental human rights?
Can it also say what steps it intends to take to promote a process of democratisation and secularisation in countries such as Nigeria, where the interpretation given to religious law (which in fact distorts the true meaning of the religion concerned) adversely affects the rights of women in particular?
What action will the Council take as soon as possible to ensure protection for the life and dignity of the Nigerian woman referred to above?"@en1
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"Subject: The situation of women in Nigeria – the case of Safia Husaini Tungar Tudu"1
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