Examples of using Polygamous marriages in English and their translations into Chinese
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The State party should prohibit polygamous marriages.
Polygamous marriages were perceived to be good in traditional PNG society.
However, German law does not recognise polygamous marriages.
Currently polygamous marriages are recognized under customary law and Mohammedan law.
What steps are being taken to discourage polygamous marriages?
Polygamous marriages were not registered; accordingly, there were no statistics on them.
Bigamy is a criminal offence, and foreign polygamous marriages are not recognised.
Moreover, polygamous marriages were also described as constituting forced marriages. .
Polygamy is not permitted by law and foreign polygamous marriages are not recognised.
But the federal government, like Britain, recognises relationships that have been legally recognised overseas,including polygamous marriages.
However, the Constitution of Kenya recognized polygamous marriages under customary law.
She requested data on polygamous marriages and divorces, especially with regard to the age of consent to such marriages and the rate of divorce.
The State party should, therefore,take concrete measures to prohibit polygamous marriages.
In circumstances where the Bill recognizes polygamous marriages it provides for their registration.
In this regard,she noted that the Law of Marriage Act recognized polygamous marriages.
The Committee also considered polygamous marriages to breach the provisions of article 5(a) of the Convention.
Although polygamy was condemned under the criminal code, polygamous marriages were legally valid.
Some States parties that recognize polygamous marriages, under either religious or customary law, also provide for civil marriage, monogamous by definition.
States parties should take all legislative andpolicy measures needed to abolish polygamous marriages.
She also wondered how many women lived in polygamous marriages and how such marriages affected their income.
Ms. Ngoma(Gabon)said that couples had the choice of opting for monogamous or polygamous marriages.
The Kyrgyz Government must ensure that the practice of bigamous or polygamous marriages through the abduction of young women was eradicated.
The Bill provides that,those married under Monogamous marriages cannot contract polygamous Marriages.
In 2004,the HR Committee was also concerned at the possible consequences of polygamous marriages that might nevertheless be concluded under customary law.
With regard to forced or polygamous marriages, registering such marriages carried a five- to ten-year prison sentence for officials who registered or performed such marriages. .
That Law defined marriage as monogamous and, consequently, polygamous marriages had no legal standing.
Accordingly, with regard to women in existing polygamous marriages, States parties should take the necessary measures to ensure the protection of the economic rights of women.
(c) Adopt without delay the draft law repealing the provision on bigamy,which is currently under preparation, so that polygamous marriages are invalidated;
The vulnerability to poverty increases women's vulnerability to abuses such as forced marriages and polygamous marriages- i.e. in becoming a subsequent wife.