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Latest items for Guinea

Aug. 10, 2024, 2:57 a.m.
Countries: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Rep, Cote D'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Syria, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

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May 23, 2024, 9:57 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: TRAFF-LAW-1

"Article 323 and 324 of the penal code criminalized sex trafficking and labor trafficking and prescribed penalties of three to seven years’ imprisonment, a fine, or both for trafficking offenses involving an adult victim, and five to 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine, or both for those involving a child victim. These penalties were sufficiently stringent; however, by allowing for a fine in lieu of imprisonment, the penalties for sex trafficking were not commensurate with those prescribed for other serious crimes, such as rape. Under Article 893 and 894 of the children’s code, child trafficking crimes were prescribed penalties of five to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 50 million...more
May 9, 2024, 11:34 a.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

Is selling sex criminalised? There is a law against soliciting for the purposes of 'prostitution'. It is worded generally, so effectively criminalises every sex worker. Is buying sex criminalised? No. Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, aiding and assisting the 'prostitution' of another is illegal, as is living on the earnings/living with a person in 'prostitution', acting as an intermediary, hiring, training or maintaining a person involved in 'prostitution'.
March 31, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, D R Congo, East Timor, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

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March 30, 2024, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Guinea ranks as a Tier 2 country (85).
Feb. 2, 2024, 6:33 a.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Guinea who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 37 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Rep, Chad, Cote D'Ivoire, D R Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Cote D'Ivoire, Denmark, Estonia, Gambia, Guinea, Iceland, India, Liberia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Togo
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Rep, Chad, Cote D'Ivoire, D R Congo, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Jan. 21, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Guinea was 553 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2023 World Bank Gender Data collected from the most recent ILO modeled estimates from 2020 onwards, the female laborforce participation rate (as a percentage of the female population ages 15+) in Guinea is 41.7% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 8, 2024, 4:12 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

"Article 667: Ont vocation héréditaire les personnes qui, par le mariage ou la parenté, se trouvent être les plus proches du défunt auquel elles ont survécu...Article 672 : La proximité de parenté s’établit par le nombre de générations, chaque génération s’appelle un degré. La suite des degrés forme la ligne : On appelle ligne directe la suite des degrés entre personnes qui descendent l’une de l’autre ; ligne collatérale, la suite des degrés entre personnes qui ne descendent pas les unes des autres, mais qui descendent d’un auteur commun. On distingue la ligne directe descendante et la ligne directe ascendante. La première est celle qui lie le chef avec ceux...more
Jan. 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Guinea is 60 years for women and 58 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 28, 2023, 2:18 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Guinea is 59.5 years for men and 62.3 years for women (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Oct. 12, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Sept. 29, 2023, 9:40 a.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"33.4 births per 1000 population"
Sept. 8, 2023, 10:42 a.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Women who were first married by age 18 (% of women ages 20-24) is '46.5%.'"
Aug. 14, 2023, 4:11 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"In the event of divorce on joint request, the spouses settle themselves the provisional measures in the temporary agreement which must be attached to their initial request. However, the judge may have the clauses of this agreement which it considers to be contrary to the interests of the children" (68). The most recent laws noted in the WomanStats Database (since 2016) relating to property division are still current as of December 2022 and no changes have been made, as verified by consulting The Women, Business, and the Law database for 2022 (JLR-CODER COMMENT).
Aug. 14, 2023, 4:09 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"The wife cooperates with the husband in providing moral and material direction of the family, to provide for its support, to bring up the children and prepare for their establishment" (62). The most recent laws noted in the WomanStats Database (since 2016) relating to marital property administration are still current as of December 2022 and no changes have been made, as verified by consulting The Women, Business, and the Law database for 2022 (JLR-CODER COMMENT).
June 17, 2023, 5:11 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Central African Rep, Egypt, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Variables: MARR-SCALE-2

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April 17, 2023, 11:59 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: MARR-LAW-7

"Marriage is prohibited: In the direct line between all legitimate or natural ascendants and descendants, and between relatives in the same line; In the collateral line between legitimate and natural brothers and sisters, between uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, great-uncle and great-niece, great-aunt and great-nephew."
April 17, 2023, 8:19 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

This analysis collected data on the proportion of consanguineous marriages in 72 different geopolitical regions from www.consang.net in October 2010, referencing many of the same 381 surveys as Alan H. Bittles' report (1998) which included information for 6.55 million marriages. In cases when multiple estimates were provided for regions, they computed the mean percentage of consanguineous marriages by weighting individual estimates according to sample size. Table 1 of the appendix summarizes consanguineous marriage data. It shows that Guinea's weighted mean consanguineous percentage is 25.90% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
April 14, 2023, 2:50 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"Furthermore, regarding land, property and other non-land assets, women are provided with the same rights as men after divorce or separation to own, use, make decisions and use as collateral" (7).
April 14, 2023, 2:48 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"Regarding land, property and other non-land assets, the law provides married women with the same rights as married men to own, use, make decisions and use as collateral (Civil Code, art. 325). Additionally, regarding land, property and other non-land assets, the law provides unmarried women with the same rights as unmarried men to own, use, make decisions and use as collateral (Constitution, art. 13 & 8). Furthermore, regarding land, property and other non-land assets, women are provided with the same rights as men after divorce or separation to own, use, make decisions and use as collateral (Civil Code, art. 357 & 358). However, regarding marital property, the husband has the...more
April 14, 2023, 2:45 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: IAD-PRACTICE-1

"Customary norms regarding inheritance tend to be discriminatory towards women as inheritance is passed down the male line and daughters are expected to access resources through marriage" (4).
April 14, 2023, 2:44 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: IAW-LAW-1

"[F]emale surviving spouses are not provided with the same rights as male surviving spouses to inherit land and non-land assets, as the Civil Code establishes special conditions for female surviving spouses" (4).
April 14, 2023, 2:43 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

"The law provides daughters with the same rights as sons to inherit land and non-land assets" (4).
April 14, 2023, 2:42 p.m.
Countries: Guinea
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"Women traditionally engage and are responsible for household duties and raising the children while men are responsible for family finances and hold decision power...These gender dynamics persist mostly in rural areas" (3).