On the occasion of Arab Family Day, a symposium on marriage held
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155 socialists and concerned persons from participating Arab countries
in the Scientific Symposium started on Wednesday discussed marriage
topic, its conditions and responsibilities resulted in.
Organized
by Ministry of Social and Labor Affairs in cooperation with the Supreme
Council for Maternity and Childhood, the symposium aims at presenting
marriage, conditions, and responsibilities resulted in from scientific
prospective.
The symposium which coincides celebration of Arab
Family Day, includes work papers presented by Yemen and some
participating countries. Yemen's two work papers included two studies
on early marriage in Yemen, its reasons and effects on girls' physical
and sentimental growth. They include also effects and relation of early
marriage with human rights and violation of girl's education right and
violence against woman.
The papers discussed mechanisms
concerning delaying marriage age and means of correcting false
conceptions concerning religious attitude as well as social and
cultural conceptions and taking care of legislative laws defining
marriage age.
The second study discussed issue woman's
participation decision-making on family and social level, important
role of woman inside the family and most important social and economic
changes in her participation in decision-making.
The study
reviewed obstacles of woman's participation in decision making, showing
that the gab still big between what laws and legislations approve of
equal rights to the two sexes in different fields.
In
addition, a work paper presented by Arab Family Organization over
marriage, conditions for getting marriage and responsibilities resulted
in marriage. Another work paper presented Egyptian National Council for
Childhood and Maternity on marriage conceptive dimension of marriage
and related problems.
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