EGYPT: After a two-year appeal to his parents to allow him to marry a woman from a lower caste, a 25-year-old man castrated himself. Marriages in southern Egypt are usually within castes, and rarely for love.
UNITED KINGDOM: Statistics show a continuing decline and divorce rates and increase in the number of years the average couple is married.
AFGHANISTAN: Women’s rights advocates are still battling the government saying changes in the marriage law don’t go far enough to confront marital rape.
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