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Nigéria : information sur la fréquence des mariages forcés, tout particulièrement au sein des communautés musulmanes et yoroubas; les lois, y compris la protection offerte par l'État; la possibilité pour les femmes de refuser un mariage forcé 9 November 2012 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Prevalence of forced marriage, particularly in Muslim and Yoruba communities; information on legislation, including state protection; ability of women to refuse a forced marriage 9 November 2012 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Prevalence of forced marriage among Christians in urban areas in Edo State 16 December 2008 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Forced marriage under Islamic law; whether an Islamic marriage requires the final "Fatiha" ceremony be completed for the marriage to be consummated and for it to be recognized by Islamic authorities; consequences for a woman who refuses to participate in the wedding; likelihood of a university-educated woman in her twenties from Etsako, Edo state being forced into marriage 17 March 2006 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Forced marriage among the Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa-Fulani; prevalence, consequences for a woman or minor who refuses to participate in the marriage; availability of state protection (February 2006) 3 March 2006 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Prevalence of arranged marriages within the Igbo community and of arranged or forced marriages between Igbo Christian women and Muslim men; information on the availability of state protection and recourses for victims of those kinds of marriage (2001-2005) 14 December 2005 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigéria : protection offerte par l'État aux mineurs faisant l'objet de mariages forcés 18 March 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: State protection available to minors who face forced marriages 18 March 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Follow up to NGA32948.E of 20 October 1999 on forced or arranged marriages of girls; whether the parties involved would wait until a girl child was over 25 years old before she moved to the proposed husband's residence prior to the marriage; whether the proposed husband would accept to marry the woman at that mature age and if she was childless; would the circumstances differ depending on the religion or ethnic group of those parties involved and if the woman was 28 years old and if the proposed husband had other wives and children 11 September 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: The Aro tribe including location, relationship to the Igbo; specific information on domestic violence and forced marriage 27 April 2001 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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