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Iraq lowers legal marriage age for girls to nine

2025-01-22 17:47:21Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Iraq lowers legal marriage age for girls to nine
Protests in Iraq

Iraq's parliament today passed several laws that critics say will effectively legalize child marriage as young as 9.

Changes to Iraq's personal status law will give Islamic courts greater authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance, a dramatic change to the unified family law and protective measures for women, created in 1959.

Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases, but the changes approved on Tuesday will allow clerics to decide according to their own interpretation of Islamic law.

Some of these interpretations allow the marriage of girls in their early teens, or at the age of nine, according to the Ja'afari school of Islamic law followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq.

Supporters of the changes, which were backed by largely conservative Shiite lawmakers, defend them as a means to harmonize the law with Islamic principles and reduce Western influence on Iraqi culture.

But Intisar al-Mayali, a human rights activist and a member of the Iraqi Women's League, said that the adoption of the amendments to the civil status law "will have disastrous effects on the rights of women and girls through the marriage of girls at an early age."

"This violates their right to live as children and will undermine women's protection mechanisms for divorce, custody and inheritance," the activist stated.


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