After massive backlash, Iraq revises legal marriage age for girls to 15

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After massive backlash, Iraq revises legal marriage age for girls to 15

Iraq’s parliament recently revised and approved amendments to the Personal Status Law which reduced the minimum marriage age for girls to be married to 15 years. This decision marks a major step back from Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law which used to be recognized as one of the most forward-thinking family laws across the Middle East. Earlier in August 2024, the parliament proposed a law to lower the legal marriage age for girls in Iraq from 18 …

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The Islamist groups in Iraq, both Sunni and Shia, have succeeded in getting the Baghdad Parliament to pass a law that allows child marriage to girls up to 9 years of age. The approval of the bill has unleashed outrage in the secular media of Iraq, which lost all influence in the Arab country after the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein. Both the Parliament and the coalition government of Shia and Sunni parties (the majority of the population is div…

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This Saturday in the Semáforo he knows the position of “El Comercio” on three important issues. First, the Municipality of Lima presented to Congress a bill to achieve the expropriation of three buildings of the Historical Center of the capital. Second, the Public Prosecutor of the Nation, Delia Espinoza, presented to Congress a constitutional complaint against two of its members. Third, the Iraqi Parliament approved a series of norms that could…

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The Federal Government's Human Rights Commissioner, Luise Amtsberg (Greens), has expressed serious concerns about a decision by the Iraqi parliament that could encourage child marriages. "I share the concern that such a step will severely restrict the rights of women and children in marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance," Amtsberg told the "Editorial Network Germany". "This would be a clear step backwards for human rights." Many in Iraq hav…

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The Iraqi parliament has passed a law that could make child marriage easier. The Federal Government's Human Rights Commissioner, Luise Amtsberg, is sounding the alarm.

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International Writing.- The Iraqi parliament has approved a package of amendments that will further deepen the sectarian divisions of the country, giving priority to the Islamic interpretations of the congregations over individual and family rights, thus legalizing the marriage of girls from the age of nine. The reform gives the Islamic courts one ...