She's pregnant and a widow.

In case of single women, the widowed and divorced, the law is complied with.

The widow mourned for her husband for a long time.

In the event of the death of a partner, both men and women below the age of 60 qualify for a widower's widow's pension.

Almost a third of the households (30.4 per cent) were headed by female adults, in most cases widows.

Widowed women were often unable to assert their ownership of land.

Vulnerable women such as female heads of households and widows were specifically targeted for these initiatives.

Many remained widows. But even more women were forced to head their household because the men left the rural areas in search of work.

Social study of widowed males differs from that of female widows.

Generally these voluntary funds are paid to needy women directly (widows, divorcees, orphan girls, and old women).

Since it would be virtually impossible to secure the full support of the extended family with regard to remarriage of the widow, she suggested that Gabon should introduce legislation which would enable widows to get the courts to force families to convene a family council.

m) Facilitate access to professional education to widows in war affected countries.

A particularly difficult plight without male support is being experienced by women widowed during the war or whose husbands have left in search of work.

Only 10 12 of these certificates were registered in women's names because these heads of households are single women or widows.

Consideration of the theme would also provide an opportunity to address the situation of older women and widows in the context of HIV AIDS.

There are female headed households without a link to males because women are unmarried, widowed, divorced or abandoned.

And I had to admit, I can't think of the last time I thought of widows and orphans.

Also, widows continued to be forced to marry their brothers in law polygamy existed.

A married woman was supposed to be a part of the Family Council, and a widow whose family ignored her could go to court and have its decisions declared null and void.

As a result of the 1992 1997 war, many households went to women who had lost their male relatives. According to estimates, roughly 20,000 women were widowed, and 55,00 children were orphaned.

Regarding widows' inheritance rights, she wondered what the Government was doing to end the discriminatory practice under which the widow was obliged to marry into her husband's family if she wished to benefit from her deceased husband's wealth.

Girls also leave school to help their mothers who have become widows and also when they marry and or have children.

This builds on current Government initiatives to support wives and widows of war veterans, improve the situation of indigenous women and older women and pursue women's human rights more generally, including in the international context.

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Women (and men) are commonly forced into accepting the marriage partners chosen for them by their families, and widows can only marry the brother or cousin of the deceased husband.

One of the issues of special interest to our Organization is that of the needs of older women and widows, who are often invisible or marginalized groups.

At the same time, the number of families headed by women is growing. The civil war produced more than 55,000 orphans and widowed 20,000 women, sic and the economic responsibility for the family fell to them.

Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide on Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence

It is working for the welfare of widows, orphans, disabled, needy and poor persons irrespective of sex, caste, creed or religion.

Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence

Two recently widowed women told the FFM their husbands had been buried not locally but in Armenia.

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However, in practice there are problems with a widow's succession to her husband's estate, a problem that is particularly noticeable in the case of a childless widow.

Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence

The practice, although it may take different forms in different regions, entails the remarrying of a widow within the husband's family or ethnic group.

Zakat funds collected by government are distributed largely to poor women, widows etc. through local Zakat committees which have been established all over the country on a locality, village and ward level.

And so I suddenly realized two very simple things First, the widowhood effect was not restricted to husbands and wives.

The practice found in some Muslim countries of forcing a widow to marry her late husband's brother or other male relative did not exist in the Gambia.

She had failed in her role as a wife, thereby justifying the family's rejection. Rejection leaves a dependent widow, who may also be unwelcome in her own family, with few sources of support.

The victims are in most cases from vulnerable groups such as widows, elderly people living alone or people originating from another locality.

However, when land becomes a marketable asset, women's access rights to land may be violated or ignored by family and community members, particularly in the case of widowed and divorced women.12

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(h) Promote government and civil society programmes that can enhance the economic opportunity of vulnerable women, such as widows, women with disabilities, elderly women, women belonging to racial and ethnic minorities, refugees, and internally displaced persons and encourage the formation of institutions and associations that develop and provide services to women entrepreneurs, particularly in rural areas