Age, gender and diversity / Widowed persons

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Nigeria: Ritual whereby a widow drinks the water used to clean her husband's corpse; consequences for a widow's refusal to drink the water; whether a widow's refusal is interpreted by others as responsibility for her husband's death (2002-2004) 12 January 2005 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Sri Lanka: Whether widows, single women and single mothers are vulnerable to violence or any other ill-treatment in Colombo (January 2003 - June 2004) 25 June 2004 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Albania: Whether the Kanun law indicates that a widow is not permitted to marry outside her dead husband's family if she has a child with that husband; whether this would be cause for a blood feud between the dead husband's family and that of her new spouse 7 April 2004 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: The existence of widower rituals, the purpose of which is to prove the innocence of a husband in his spouse's death 25 July 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Ghana: Ashanti widow rituals, steps required, whether the widow can refuse to participate, whether she would be required to marry her husband's relative, and consequences for refusal 7 May 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Uganda: Information on the marriage practices of the Bakenyi (AKA Mukenyi); prevalence and enforcement of widow inheritance, particularly in Kampala; state protection available to a widow who refused to marry her deceased husband's brother; relation of Sabiny tribe to Bakenyi tribe 24 December 2001 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Yemen: The treatment of widowed women who are without male protection; the treatment of ethnic minority women who are without male protection, particularly women of Vietnamese descent 2 November 2001 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: The ritual whereby a widow drinks the water used to clean her husband's corpse; consequences for a widow's refusal to drink the water; whether a widow's refusal is interpreted by others as responsibility for her husband's death 10 July 2001 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Egypt: State protection available to women who suffer violence and abuse from family members, specifically, widows who suffer abuse and violence from in-laws 3 July 2001 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Uganda: Family law with respect to custody of children of widows; whether husband's family has better claim to custody of children, including step-children (biologically related to mother, not deceased husband); including legislation and enforcement 12 March 2001 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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