Browsing: Marriage

The Taliban’s latest decree has intensified alarm over the worsening treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan, because it appears to move discrimination from the realm of practice into the realm of formal law. By making child marriage easier to sustain and much harder to contest, the measure strengthens concerns that the regime is not…

When I first began the journey of writing The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa, I was struck by a persistent, troubling paradox. While the global north has seen a rapid incremental shift toward LGBT+ rights, the narrative in much of sub-Saharan Africa has often been one of stagnation or, more distressingly, active…