Unregistered marriages are already a loophole enabling child marriage in Iraq, where child marriage rates have been rising over the last 20 years, a March 2024 report by Human Rights Watch found.

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Protesters in Baghdad's Tahrir Square demonstrating against a proposed law that critics said would legalize child marriage in Iraq on August 8, 2024.

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.

She said that the new law would lead to legalized child marriage in Iraq, in contradiction to the original 1959 Personal Status Law, which requires that both members of a couple be above 18 years ...

Iraq Iraq law could lower a girl’s age of consent as an adult from 18 to 9: it ‘legalizes child rape’ The proposed law would also give religious authorities to carry out marriages of the ...

Although Iraq outlawed child marriages in the 1950s, a United Nations 2023 survey found that about 28% of girls in the country had married before their 18th birthday. Filed under.

IRAQ has effectively legalised child marriage, with girls as young as nine being able to marry after amendments to decades old laws. The change on Tuesday has increased the interpretation of Islami… ...

Girls as young as nine could enter marriages under new measures being proposed in Iraq that could also see divorce protections for women revoked, human rights campaigners have warned.. Amnesty ...

Why It Matters. Opponents to the amendments say they effectively legalize child marriage in Iraq and mark a significant step backward for women's rights in the country.