Rights groups and many Iraqi women fear the country's parliament will open the door to child marriages as lawmakers consider legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over family law.
FILE- An Iraq i woman protests against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq , July 28, 2024. Rights groups and many Iraq i women fear the country’s parliament will open the door to child marriages as lawmakers consider legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over family law. FILE- Iraq i protesters demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq , July 28, 2024.
But such child marriages of girls might be state-sanctioned soon. Iraq’s parliament is considering controversial legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over family law matters, a move that rights groups and opponents warn could open the door to the marriage of girls as young as 9.
Conservative legislators say the changes give people a choice whether to use civil or religious law, and argue they are defending families from secular, Western influences. Iraq’s personal status law passed in 1959 is broadly perceived as a strong foundation largely protecting women and children’s rights. It set the legal marriage age at 18, though it allows girls as young as 15 to marry with parental consent and medical proof that the girl has hit puberty and is menstruating.
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