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IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the Mali Criminal Code is
currently unavailable to the DIRB in Ottawa. For information
concerning the legality of female circumcision in Mali, please
refer to page 176 of Country Reports 1993, which is
currently available at Regional Documentation Centres. The source
mentions that there is no law banning female circumcision in Mali,
although the government has been making efforts to eradicate the
practice. For details, please refer to the document cited
above.
World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and
Penal Systems provides figures for crimes committed in Mali in
1984 (1989, 516). This source does not directly answer the question
as to whether it is an offence to sexually assault a woman who is
not one's wife pursuant to a civil marriage. Nonetheless, the
source produces figures for "sex offences, including rape" in Mali
for the year in question (ibid.).
For additional information on female
circumcision in Mali, please refer to Responses to Information
Requests MLI19401.E dated 12 January 1995 and MLI19402 dated 10
January 1995. These documents are currently available at Regional
Documentation Centres.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1993. 1994. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.
Kurian, George Thomas. 1989. World
Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Penal Systems. New York:
Facts on File.
Kurian, George Thomas. 1989. World
Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Penal Systems. New York:
Facts on File, p. 516.
Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade Canada library, Ottawa.
Department of Justice library,
Ottawa.
Embassy of Mali, Ottawa.
Embassy of Mali, Washington, DC.
National Library of Canada, Ottawa.
McGill University, Faculty of Law
library, Montreal.
Osgoode Hall Law School library,
Toronto.
Supreme Court of Canada library,
Ottawa.
Université de Laval,
bibliothèque de la Faculté de droit, Ste-Foy,
Québec.
Université du Québec
à Montréal (UQAM), bibliothèque de la
Faculté de droit.
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