{"id":66558,"date":"2019-08-27T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=66558"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:38:07","slug":"remove-virgin-marriage-certificates-bangladesh-top-court-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/remove-virgin-marriage-certificates-bangladesh-top-court-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove \u2018Virgin\u2019 from Marriage Certificates: Bangladesh Top Court orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u00a0Bangladesh\u2019s top court on Sunday (August 25) directed the Government to remove the word \u2018Virgin\u2019 from Muslim marriage certificates which is a landmark verdict after campaigners challenged the \u201chumiliating and discriminatory\u201d term, an attorney said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the South Asian country\u2019s Muslim marriage laws, a bride has to select one of three options on the certificate \u2013 whether she is a Kumari (virgin), a widow or divorced.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a brief verdict on Sunday, the court ordered the government to remove the term and replace it with \u201cunmarried\u201d, said deputy attorney general Amit Talukder.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a landmark verdict,\u201d Aynun Nahar Siddiqua, a lawyer for the groups which filed the case challenging the term in 2014 said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rights groups have long criticized the term \u2013 used in certificates since they were introduced in 1961 \u2013 saying it is \u201chumiliating and discriminatory\u201d, and that it breaches the privacy of the woman getting married.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The court also ordered authorities to introduce the options \u201cunmarried, widower or divorced\u201d for the groom on the certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bangladesh is the world\u2019s third-largest Muslim majority nation and nearly 90% of its 168 million populations are Muslims.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u00a0Bangladesh\u2019s top court on Sunday (August 25) directed the Government to remove the word \u2018Virgin\u2019 from Muslim marriage certificates which is a landmark verdict after campaigners challenged the \u201chumiliating and discriminatory\u201d term, an attorney said.\u00a0 Under the South Asian country\u2019s Muslim marriage laws, a bride has to select one of three options on the certificate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511],"tags":[10926,62,335],"yst_prominent_words":[8358,77955,30001,20997,77954,3885,77946,77953,77947,77952,77949,5733,4170,77948,44239,77950,5981,27803,17264,77951],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/08\/27151858\/muslim.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66558"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66558"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=66558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}