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Latest items for Algeria

June 28, 2025, 3:53 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"The 2018 Health Act promulgated three permissive cases for abortions: When the physiological, psychological, and/or mental balance of the woman is at serious risk. The text is not explicit as to the nature of the loss of balance but is believed to refer to a woman who gets pregnant after being raped. When the foetal anomaly implies non-viability. When a woman’s life or health is at risk if the pregnancy continues" (Para 3-6).
June 24, 2025, 9:07 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: AFE-DATA-1

The gender parity index (GPI) for gross secondary school enrollment (i.e. the ratio of gross enrollment of girls to gross enrollment of boys at the secondary level) is 1.04. This number was found by using the World Bank's data for secondary school gross enrollment for girls and boys. As of 2023, the gross enrollment rate for females is 105% while the gross enrollment rate for males is 101%. (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 31, 2024, 4:46 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chad, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Swaziland, Vanuatu, Venezuela
Variables: IRP-SCALE-1

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Dec. 4, 2024, 4:38 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: PW-LAW-1

"Polygyny legal for up to four wives, but increasingly rare" (para 18)
Aug. 21, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5

“Moreover, the police are entrusted with the implementation of laws that protect victims of prostitution, even though police officers are directly linked to the establishment of prostitution in Algeria.” (3)
Aug. 10, 2024, 2:57 a.m.
Countries: Algeria, Burkina Faso, East Timor, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Qatar, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

12.0
May 2, 2024, 11:01 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"According to statistics from Algerian security services, 1,404 women were victims of domestic violence by their husbands in 2022" (para 3).
May 2, 2024, 10:54 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: DV-DATA-1

This a cross-sectional descriptive study of a sample of women who were examined at the forensic exploration unit of Annaba Hospital over a period of 3 months (first quarter of 2018). In all, 200 women were recruited among those who had been abused by the intimate partner. Out of the 200 women surveyed over a period of 3 months, 1 in 10 or 9.36% of women consulted were victims of domestic violence (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
March 31, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Montenegro, Mozambique, Serbia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Swaziland, Syria, Trinidad/Tobago, Vanuatu, Vietnam
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

3.0
March 30, 2024, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Algeria ranks as a Tier 3 country (85).
March 11, 2024, 11:40 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Is selling sex criminalised? Selling sex is legal but soliciting is illegal. Is buying sex criminalised? No. Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes, aiding, assisting and protecting the 'prostitution' of others; living on the earnings; hires or maintains a person in prostitution'; acts as an intermediary; brothel-keeping' allowing sex workers to work/gather on premises" (para 1-3).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Suriname, Tunisia, Vanuatu
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Fiji, Gabon, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen
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: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Jan. 21, 2024, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
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 Algeria was 78 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:37 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
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 Algeria is 16.4% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Algeria is 78 years for women and 75 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 28, 2023, 2:18 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to 2019 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, average life expectancy in Algeria is 76.2 years for men and 78.1 years for women (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Oct. 12, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
Countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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

"19.6 births per 1000 population"
Sept. 8, 2023, 9:57 a.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Women who were first married by age 18 (% of women ages 20-24)" is '3.80%.'"
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: TRAFF-LAW-1, GEW-LAW-1

"[T]he punishment for convicted kidnappers includes the death penalty" (30).
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"Authorities normally awarded custody of children to the mother, but she may not make decisions about education or take the children out of the country without the father’s authorization. The government provided a subsidy for divorced women whose former husbands failed to make child support payments" (29).
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"The law provides for sentences of six months to two years’ incarceration for men who withhold property or financial resources from their spouses" (28).
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: MARR-LAW-1

"The law forbids legal guardians from forcing minors under their care to marry against the minor’s will" (30).
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: CWC-DATA-3

The report had no information on internally displaced persons except to say that this group was not applicable to the state (MV-coder comment). "The government did not accept refugees from foreign countries for resettlement. The Sahrawi refugees had not sought local integration or naturalization during their 40-year stay in the refugee camps near Tindouf" (22).
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: INFIB-LAW-1

"[Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C)] is considered a criminal offense punishable by up to 25 years in prison" (28).
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1

"Women’s groups reported that the majority of reported cases of [sexual] harassment occurred in the workplace" (29). "Women may own businesses, enter into contracts, and pursue careers similar to those of men" (29).