widows

Our dear old dowagers? Oh, no!

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

or widowers around town for just one... It's a little odd.

We also support widows who are gardening in Fello Wendou in the Fouta Djalon region.

They prepare a so called Ramadan shopping bag, so that it be distributed to the needy, widowed and poor.

I suppose that's why so few widows wear it. They'd have to be so careful.

Regarding the widowed men, when subjected to these rites they are less heavy.

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

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

Besides, you know what I think of widows being walled up alive.

His indiscretions with rich widows brought in less than a million francs a year.

According to estimates, roughly 20,000 women were widowed, and 55,00 children were orphaned.

At an international conference organized by the Women's United Nations Report Program and Network (WUNRN) concerning widows, the Special Rapporteur contributed a statement on the intersectionality of discrimination against widows, because they are women and because they are widows, and the effects of this discrimination on their right to adequate housing.

Additional paid annual leave of 6 days for widowed parents or single parent families.

Lastly, widows and orphans were protected by the law, even though that protection might be undermined by family circumstances.

And there were lots of widows and orphans, people like that, who needed a foster home.

The situation of women returnees, particularly widows, is further exacerbated by the lack of adequate legislation to address their inheritance and land access rights.

On the other hand, the widows and women who are separated from their husbands engaged in this work to support their children for food, shelter and education.

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

Historically, the rich in each low caste emulated the customs and rituals of the upper castes, such as child marriage, the payment of dowries, and prevention of widows remarrying.

Although not practiced often, some widows are forced into marriage, usually to a close kinsman of her husband, upon his death.

There were only 7,000 widowers receiving survivors' benefit half of them receiving the regular benefit and the other half, the combined benefit.

The report also refers to harmful traditional practices, such as humiliating and degrading treatment of widows and the giving of a girl in marriage to a witch doctor for religious reasons (p. 14).

For example, in Kenya increasing poverty, largely associated with rural landlessness, is also leading to increasing disinheritance of widows.

The project aimed at empowering women who were the poorest of the poor, without income, or who were socially marginalized as divorcees, widows and heads of households.

Zakat The Islamic system of Zakat (two and a half annual tax on all unspent wealth and assets) is designed to benefit widows, orphans, the poor and those in dire need.

Furthermore, the Government had recently taken legal measures to allow children of widows and women divorced from non nationals to be naturalized through their mother.

Widows may be forced to have unprotected sex with the brother of the deceased or another man in the community to cleanse her of his spirit.

It was not necessary to wait for the results of a survey in order to amend legislation which permitted polygamy in one of its articles and prevented widows from inheriting their dead husband's property in another.

The day care scheme covers the contingency of inability of working mothers, or widowed or divorced workers who have custody of children by decision of a court of law, to look after their small children during the working day.

On the other side, however, remains the vast population of powerless Iraqis, including widows and divorced or abandoned women with no one to provide for them and their children.

Widows may also be particularly affected in fishing and other communities where traditional distribution of labour made women dependent on their husbands for income generation.

The Decree strictly prohibits polygamy, the customs of exacting wedding presents, wife robbery and string binding (i.e. widows and widowers are forced to get married with other members of their deceased spouse's family).

The Humanitarian Coordination Section of UNMIL organized a workshop on property rights of returnees, which emphasized the importance of using new legislation to protect widows' rights to property.

An increase in all widows' pensions amounting to less than twice the minimum wage from 90 to 100 (all at the expense of the Federal Government) in response to an urgent demand from society.

Unemployed men and women insured against unemployment who are or become widowers widows are entitled to receiving the unemployment benefit despite receiving a survivor's pension.

Specific focus was placed on disadvantaged groups orphans were taken care of under a foster programme, for instance, and received a monthly allowance, as did families in need and widowed women.

Support and funding must focus on addressing the most pressing needs of women in that country, based on their perspectives including those of women who are widowed, victims of war, victims of sexual violence, and ex combatants and not as seen from an international perspective.

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.

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.

Over half the elderly women are widows, compared to only 16 of the men, mostly due to women's longer life span and their tendency to marry older men.

To enhance equal access to the law, especially for poor and vulnerable women, the Government had established family courts that were more sensitive to women and children and had decentralized the public trustee services to make them more accountable, particularly in the case of widowed women.

Widows are another marginalized group of women whose right to adequate housing is threatened as a result of the particular vulnerabilities they face from being subjects of intersecting discrimination on the grounds of their gender and widowhood, in conjunction with other factors such as age, disability, caste, poverty, etc.

Develop targeted activities focused on the specific constraints facing women and girls, including widows, female heads of households, refugees and IDPs, in post conflict situations, such as lack of land, property rights and access to and control over economic resources.