Iraqi lawmakers pass a bill that critics say legalizes child marriage ...
Jan 21, 2025 · BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage. The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance.
Iraqi lawmakers pass a bill that critics say legalizes child marriage
Jan 22, 2025 · Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.
Iraq lowers age of consent to just 9 years old in sick new law so …
Jan 22, 2025 · Activists argue that this undermines Iraq's 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women. Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in ...
Proposed Bill in Iraq Could Allow Girls Young as 9 to Marry - TIME
Aug 16, 2024 · Even with the legal protections currently in place, child marriage remains prevalant in Iraq, with approximately 28% of girls marrying before the age of 18, according to a 2023 UNICEF report....
Iraq: Reject changes to Personal Status Law which would allow child ...
Oct 10, 2024 · Iraqi lawmakers must drop amendments to the Personal Status Law, which would violate women and girls’ rights, further entrench discrimination and could allow for girls as young as nine to be married, Amnesty International said today, ahead of an imminent parliamentary vote on the changes.
Iraq could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. A survivor says it ...
Dec 15, 2024 · Lawmakers in Iraq are proposing amendments to the country’s Personal Status Law that could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. BAGHDAD — She was just 11 when she was sold into wedlock with...
Iraq: Parliament Poised to Legalize Child Marriage
Aug 16, 2024 · (Beirut) – Iraq’s parliament is moving forward an amendment to the country’s Personal Status Law that would allow Iraqi religious authorities, rather than state law, to govern marriage and...
Iraqi women fear rise in child marriages as lawmakers consider …
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.
Iraq's Amended Personal Status Law Could Make 9-Year-Olds Brides
Sep 19, 2024 · In effect, it could legalize child marriage for girls as young as 9 and boys as young as 15, undermine the principle of equality before the law and remove protections for women regarding...
Iraq: Revised 'sectarian' law that raised fears over child marriage ...
Jan 21, 2025 · A "sectarian" bill that could potentially legitimise child marriage in Iraq has passed into law reportedly without a vote in the parliament.. The parliamentary website said "the proposal to amend ...