Girls in Iraq ‘could be married at nine’ if draft law is approved
Iraq has moved a step closer to allowing girls as young as nine to marry, human rights campaigners have claimed. The proposal is part of a draft law recently approved by 40 MPs that would see the restoration of religious courts, says Equality Now (EN). Government courts have, since 1959, ruled on such matters, setting the…
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