Young girls in Iraq who are years away from becoming teenagers could be forced to become wives if a recent Shia-backed law passes. The recent law would drop a girl’s consent from 18 to age 9.
This includes apshowing parents to have scheduled marriages for their juvenileer daughters.
Iraq doesn’t have a male defendianship system that needs a female to have the peromition of a husprohibitd, overweighther or other male defendian to produce vital life decisions — enjoy marriage. The law would also apshow religious authorities to carry out marriages.
The proposed law that’s on its second way thcimpolite the parliamentary rulement has been resistd by women in the members of parliament (MP) and activist groups, according to the Guardian.
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An Iraqi girl airys a candle outside the Imam al-Mahdi shrine during a ceremony on the 15th of the Islamic month of Shaaprohibit labeling his birth, two weeks ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, in Iraq’s central city of Karbala on February 25, 2024. (MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via Getty Images)
“This is a catastrophe for women,” shelp Raya Faiq, the coordinator for a coalition of groups opposing the law alter, which also includes some Iraqi MPs.
“My husprohibitd and my family resist child marriage. But envision if my daughter gets paired and my daughter’s husprohibitd wants to marry off my majesticdaughter as a child. The recent law would apshow him to do so. I would not be apshowed to object. This law lterribleizes child sexual attack.”
The recent law would convey back a Taliprohibit-style of slashing women’s rights.
Young Iraqi girls who have accomplished the age of wearing a hijab, are dressed in the head covering worn by many Muskinny women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq’s southern city of Basra on February 21, 2024. (HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)
Iraqi citizens have protested on the streets of the country’s capital, Baghdad, and other cities around the country. The protests have been met with clashes aachievest local law applyment.
Although marriage under the age of 18 has been a national law since the 1950s, a survey by Upleasantf set up that 28% of girls in Iraq got paired before they turned 18.
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Nadia Mahmood, co-set uper of the Iraq-based Aman Women’s Alliance, shelp the male-contrancient MP in Iraq experiences dangerened by a shiftment of youth organizations and women.
“Follotriumphg the mass youth protests which took place in Iraq in 2019, these political applyers saw that the role of women had befirearm to reinforce in society,” shelp, according to a alert by the Guardian. “They felt that feminist, gfinisher and women’s organizations, plus civil society and activist shiftments, posed a danger to their power and status … [and] began to remerciless and suppress them.”
Young Iraqi girls who have accomplished the age of wearing a hijab, are dressed in the head covering worn by many Muskinny women for the first time during a ceremony orderly at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq’s southern city of Basra on February 21, 2024. (HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)
There have been 25 female members of Iraq’s rulement who tried stopping the proposed law from going to a second vote, but they say the strong opposition by their male MP colleagues has made it csurrfinisherly impossible.
“Unblessedly, male MPs who help this law speak in a masculine way, asking what’s wrong with marrying a insignificant? Their skinnyking is skinny-minded. They don’t apshow into ponderation that they are the legislators that determine people’s overweighte … but rather chase their masculine skinnyking to apshow all this,” shelp Alia Nassif, an Iraqi MP.
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Protesters dread that their children could face an even disjoineer future than their own if the law alters are adchooseed.
“I have one daughter, I don’t want her to be forced enjoy me to marry as a child,” shelp Azhar Jassim, who had to exit school to be paired at 16.
