text: Malaysia: As a Muslim country, Malaysia has a dual legal system with Muslims being subject to Sharia law. The National Fatwa Council issued a fatwa permitting abortion up to 120 days of gestation in cases when the woman's life is deemed to be in great danger or there is fetal impairment. Abortion on the grounds of rape or incest is still illegal.
  India: Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, Amendments, 2002
  Switzerland: Abortion was legalized by popular vote after its criminal prohibition had ceased to be observed in practice for some time.
  United Kingdom: Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002
  Benin: Abolition of the requirement that married women must have their husbands' permission to initiate judicial proceeding.
  Nepal: Married daughters under 35 can inherit property.
  United States, Florida: Sultaana Freeman filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Florida when the state's Department of Highway Safety suspended her license when she refused to be re-photographed without her niqab. Her legal license was suspended without change in policy or law following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Her lawsuit argued that her religious beliefs required her to wear a veil "in front of strangers and unrelated males". It also stated that other states allowed photo-free licenses for religious reasons. Judge Janet C. Thorpe denied her lawsuit that year, and a state appeals court later upheld Thorpe's ruling.