{"id":7853,"date":"2019-08-27T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/bangladesh-to-remove-the-word-virgin-from-muslim-marriage-certificates"},"modified":"2019-08-27T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:14:13","slug":"bangladesh-to-remove-the-word-virgin-from-muslim-marriage-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7853","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh to remove the word &#8216;virgin&#8217; from Muslim marriage certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verdict from country\u2019s top court will see \u2018virgin\u2019 replaced with \u2018unmarried\u2019 on in landmark victory for campaigners<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cvirgin\u201d must be removed from Muslim marriage certificates in Bangladesh, the country\u2019s top court has said, a landmark verdict after campaigners challenged the \u201chumiliating and discriminatory\u201d term.<\/p>\n<p>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/apr\/29\/girls-in-bangladesh-learn-to-talk-their-way-out-of-forced-marriage\">South Asian country\u2019s Muslim marriage laws<\/a>, a bride has to select one of three options on the certificate \u2013 whether she is a Kumari (virgin), a widow or divorced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/27\/bangladesh-to-remove-the-word-virgin-from-muslim-marriage-certificates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verdict from country\u2019s top court will see \u2018virgin\u2019 replaced with \u2018unmarried\u2019 on in landmark victory for campaignersThe word \u201cvirgin\u201d must be removed from Muslim marriage certificates in Bangladesh, the country\u2019s top court has said, a landmark verdict a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,646,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-gender","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7854,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}