11.   In recent months, he added, Taliban authorities have not enforced an edict prohibiting foreign Muslim women from going out in public without a close male relative.

12.   In some, husbands voted for wives, and in others male relatives cast votes for widows, a tradition that has endured since the Qing dynasty.

13.   Large extended families make up the fabric of Rwandan villages, and widows who can call on their distant male relatives do.

14.   Last year she led a drive for financial assistance for women whose male relatives were massacred after Bosnian Serb soldiers captured the town of Srebrenica.

15.   Liisa Lawrence of Connecticut picked up books for a slew of male relatives including her husband who she said was fascinated by military history.

16.   Nafas is forbidden to travel without a male relative.

17.   On Thursday night, the first evening of the celebration, hundreds of male relatives and friends joined Qudrat and his father for singing and dancing at their home.

18.   Rape, beating and murder of women by male relatives is common all over Latin America, and often men get away with the crimes.

19.   Some of the opposition groups have explicitly justified attacking women whose male relatives are declared enemies.

20.   The Americans hired one female physician to work at the clinic, only to learn she had to get permission each day from her male relatives to come.