[arista]

[A conservative religious coalition in Iraq
has pushed proposals to lower the
legal age of marriage for girls to
just nine-years-old,
sparking fierce backlash from
activists and rights groups.

Protesters demonstrated in Baghdad
this week to express their outrage
at changes that would allow aspects
of personal status matters to be legislated
by religious sects, rather than the courts.

With many Iraqi marriages conducted
informally and left unregistered,
the revisions would allow figures from
Sunni and Shia religious sects
to finalise unions between people in law.]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rls-marry.html


https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...-say-activists