The Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sports' (MCYS) Department of Community Development provides counselling for women and their spouses.

Based on individual circumstances, some female and minor victims were placed in protective custody while waiting for their cases to be brought to court.

Islamic courts staffed by male and female officials offered counselling to married couples in domestic violence cases.

Couples and individuals have the right to decide the number, spacing, and timing of their children, and have access to contraceptive devices and methods through the government and private clinics.

According to information gathered by the UN, in 2008 the maternal mortality rate was an estimated 21 deaths per 100,000 live births.

[4][5] In 2014, Brunei's government implemented Sharia criminal law in a series of phases which was set to increase the punishment for abortion to execution by stoning.

[8] Many Muslim women in Brunei wear traditional head coverings known as the tudong,[9] also spelled as tudung.

In recent years, Bruneian women have started to assume "positions of responsibility" in the Government of Brunei.