Norway’s 2003 proposal required immigrants to swear their marriages were voluntary

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Finally, in the summer of 2003, a proposition was circulated regarding a further amendment to Norway’s family-reunification laws that would insert a clause requiring both partners to swear that each is entering into marriage voluntarily and that each party has the equal right to divorce. Here the idea is to signal Norway’s non-acceptance of discriminatory Muslim marriage pacts and to encourage women’s acquiring of a religious right of divorce, thereby reconciling a cultural practice with public law. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 312

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