147. Specifically, Law n° 61-10 of 7 March 1961, as amended by Law n° 89-42 of
26 December, 1989, determining Senegalese nationality provides as follows
«may opt for Senegalese nationality from the age of 18 years up to 25 years :
A legitimate child born to a Senegalese mother and a father who is a
foreign national;
“A child born out of wedlock when the parent in respect of whom
parentage has been established in the second instance is Senegalese,
and the other parent is a foreign national”
148. The foreign woman who marries a Senegalese may acquire Senegalese
nationality except where she expressly abandoned any claim to it during the
celebration of the marriage. Conversely, a Senegalese woman who marries a
foreigner does not lose her original nationality, unless for purposes of her
marriage, she expressly requests to be deprived of her nationality. In such a
case, the cancellation can only be effective if she is able to acquire the
nationality of the future husband.
149. Furthermore, regarding employment and social security, Law n° 61-33 of 16
June 1961 on the general civil service regulations co-exists with specific
regulations for some categories of public servants, Law n° 59-64 of 6 November,
1959, as amended by Law 97-17 of 17 December 1997 on the Labour Code
and Law 75-50 of 03 April 1975 relating to social security institutions, both Laws
state that no distinction shall be made between a man and a woman as far as
their implementation is concerned.
150. Under the penal code, Law n° 77-33 of 22 February 1977 on the
amendment of the penal code repealed Article 332 which provided for and
penalized the offence of desertion of the marital home considered as
discriminatory against women. In fact, the choice of matrimonial home was one
of the privileges of the husband, who did not seem to care about the provisions
of Article 332. In addition, the offence of desertion of the matrimonial home has
been removed and replaced with desertion of the family, a more neutral
formulation.
151. Law n° 72-61 of 12 June 1972 on the Family Code has instituted divorce by
mutual consent, thus placing men and women on equal footing. Furthermore,
the same law prohibits repudiation which gives the man priority in Islamic law,
and as a penalty, it has made serious insults against women a case for divorce.
directly or in a disguised form, distributed or delivered , for purposes of their distribution by any means, any objects
or images, any printed material, writings, speeches, posters, engravings, paintings, photographs, films or emblems,
photographs, films or photo negatives, matrices or reproductions designed to declare racial superiority , or racial
hatred or constituting an incitement to racial, ethnic or religious discrimination.»
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