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One page per country covered: what the law says on marriage, divorce, family, health and violence, with every page of the site about that country.

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The site is organised by topic: a general page says what is true everywhere, and a country page says what changes. That is the right way to write it, but not always the right way to search it — if you live in Ireland or are marrying a Canadian, you want everything about that country at once.

Each page below brings together, for one country, every page of the site that concerns it: marriage and divorce, parentage and inheritance, contraception and abortion, infections, online dating and the law that applies to what you post.

Compare two countries

Pick a topic and two countries: the table is built from the same country files as the rest of the site, side by side.

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The countries covered

European framework

Europe

Western Africa

Middle Africa

Eastern Africa

A woman places coloured pins on a large wall map of the world
In front of a large wall map of the world, a woman pushes coloured pins into Europe, Africa and Quebec. Each version of the site has its own country pages, all built on the same plan: the countries of its language and those where its diaspora lives; the other countries are covered, in the same way, in the other versions.

Southern Africa

Western Asia

Southern Asia

Eastern Asia

South-eastern Asia

Northern America

Caribbean

South America

Oceania

Countries in the other versions of the site

The English version covers the English-speaking countries and those where many English speakers live; the site's 66 other countries and territories have their pages in the version of their language or of the diaspora that lives there.

French version

German version

Spanish version

Italian version

Portuguese version

Dutch version

Polish version

Turkish version

How these pages are built

They contain no text of their own: they are lists, assembled automatically from the existing pages. Whenever a country page is created or moved, the corresponding list follows. That is also why they are not offered to search engines: a list of links teaches nothing to someone landing on it by chance. It is for you, once you are on the site.

If your country is missing

The site covers French-, English-, German-, Spanish-, Italian-, Portuguese-, Dutch-, Polish- and Turkish-speaking countries, plus the countries where their diasporas live. For the others, the general pages say what is true everywhere, and the comparator puts two covered countries side by side. If a country is missing, write to us: that is the kind of request that gets a series added.

Sources

  1. Women, Business and the Law — World Bank, accessed 2026
  2. HCCH Members — Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), accessed 2026

Official or institutional documents this page relies on, consulted on 12 October 2026. Links open in a new tab.

Content updated in . The instruments cited can change: if in doubt, confirm with the official source given.

Text written with the help of AI, under the editorial responsibility of CAPIT; human reviews are occasional (method and sources: About). This content does not replace medical or legal advice. Spotted an error? Write to us.

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