Women's Rights
Under the laws of Turkmenistan, domestic violence and prostitution are illegal, though enforcement is scant. However, laws prohibiting rape and guaranteeing women the same marriage and inheritance rights as men are generally respected.
The Social Institutions and Gender Index highlights the absence of current gender statistics, which prevents a more precise assessment of the situation of Turkmenistani women.
Read more about this topic: Human Rights In Turkmenistan
Famous quotes containing the words women and/or rights:
“I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain.... It is a war ... to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)