6Photo© dnaindia.comIraq proposes law to lower marriage age for girls to 9, stokes controversy
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A controversial bill that could potentially reduce the legal marriage age for girls to 9 and boys to 15 has been introduced in Iraq's parliament.
The draft bill will further allow citizens to choose either religious authorities or the civil judiciary to decide on family affairs, sparking widespread concerns over how it could be used to undermine legal proceedings related to inheritance, child custody and divorce.
The Personal Status Law in the country stipulates the legal marriage age to be 18; that this bill could blatantly change that is the most feared facet of the proposal.
“ Their most efficient tool for this distraction is to terrorize Iraqi women and civil society with a legislation that strips away all the rights that Iraqi women gained in modern times,
Muhammad,
Iraq proposes law to lower marriage age for girls to 9, stokes…