Marriage

====Right and ability to divorce====
While international law and conventions recognize the need for consent for entering a marriage – namely that people cannot be forced to get married against their will – the right to obtain a divorce is not recognized; therefore holding a person in a marriage against their will (if such person has consented to entering in it) is not considered a violation of human rights, with the issue of divorce being left at the appreciation of individual states.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Collins |first=Jem |date=2018-07-25 |title=It's 2018 And You Still Don't Have A Right To Divorce |url=https://eachother.org.uk/divorce-right/ |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=EachOther |language=en}}</ref>

In the EU, the last country to allow divorce was [[Malta]], [[Maltese divorce referendum, 2011|in 2011]]. Around the world, the only countries to forbid divorce are [[Philippines]] and [[Vatican City]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/06/world/asia/philippines-legal-divorce-battle/|title=The fight to make divorce legal in the Philippines |first=Sunshine|last=Lichauco de Leon|work=CNN |date=6 October 2014 |access-date=11 August 2021 }}</ref> although in practice in many countries which use a [[Divorce#At-fault divorce|fault-based divorce]] system obtaining a divorce is very difficult. The ability to divorce, in law and practice, has been and continues to be a controversial issue in many countries, and public discourse involves different ideologies such as feminism, social conservatism, religious interpretations.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1828&context=faculty_scholarship |title=Feminism and Family Law |last=Bartlett |first=Katherine T. |date=1999 |journal=Family Law Quarterly |volume=33 |number=3 |pages=475–500}}</ref>