Contents 4.3 4.4 5. Women’s Right to Freedom from Slavery, the Slave Trade, Forced and Compulsory Labour, and Trafficking ......................................478 5.1 5.2 6. Relevant legal provisions.................................................................................478 5.1.1 Slavery, the slave trade and servitude ........................................................478 5.1.2 Forced and compulsory labour...................................................................479 5.1.3 Trafficking...............................................................................................479 The practice of slavery, forced and compulsory labour, and trafficking in women........................................................................................481 The Right to Equality in respect of Marriage ..............................................484 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 7. 4.2.4 Abortion..................................................................................................464 4.2.5 Infant mortality and life expectancy ..........................................................465 The right to freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ..............................................................466 4.3.1 Violence against women deprived of their liberty........................................467 4.3.2 Unlawful punishments .............................................................................469 4.3.3 Violence against women and the girl child in families and the community in general................................................................................472 Violence against women as crimes against humanity and war crimes..........................................................................................................477 The right of intending spouses to marry freely and to found a family...............................................................................................................484 6.1.1 Polygamous marriages ..............................................................................486 6.1.2 The marriageable age................................................................................487 6.1.3 Other de jure and de facto impediments to the right to marry freely.............488 6.1.4 Restrictions on remarriage.........................................................................489 6.1.5 Registration of marriages ..........................................................................490 6.1.6 Meaning of the right to found a family ......................................................491 Equality of rights in terms of nationality laws .............................................493 The equal right to a name ...............................................................................495 Equal rights and responsibilities of spouses as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution ...........................................................496 6.4.1 Relevant legal provisions ...........................................................................496 6.4.2 General understanding of the principle of equal rights and responsibilities ..........................................................................................497 6.4.3 Equal right to decision-making.................................................................498 6.4.4 Equal parental rights and responsibilities .................................................498 6.4.5 Equal rights to marital property ...............................................................499 6.4.6 The equal right to a profession and an occupation......................................500 6.4.7 Women living in de facto unions ...............................................................500 6.4.8 Equality with respect to divorce.................................................................501 6.4.9 The equal right of succession between spouses.............................................501 The Equal Right to Legal Capacity in Civil Matters ...................................502 7.1 7.2 Equal rights to administer property and conclude contracts ....................502 The equal right to succession in general.......................................................504 Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers xvii