Iraq could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. A survivor says it would fuel rape and child abuse.
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Lawmakers in Iraq are proposing amendments to the country’s Personal Status Law that could allow marriage for girls as young as 9.

Summary

Proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as 9 to marry, sparking outrage from rights groups and survivors like “Batta,” who endured abuse after being forced into marriage at 11.

The changes would shift decision-making power to clerics, undermining existing protections for women and children established in 1959.

Supporters claim the amendments promote family values, but critics call them a violation of children’s rights and a step toward legalized child abuse.

Activists and lawmakers are working to block the controversial proposal.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      Oh, is this going to be like the last time you played dumb as to your past statements, and then when I brought receipts you went silent on the topic and proceeded to waste my fucking time? If it is, I’d at least like to know beforehand.

      • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        You certainly have a wild imagination because if you’re referring to the time I think you are, the last time you brought “receipts” it was you linking to posts of mine not containing anything you claimed I wrote. I don’t know why you’re so angry at me, but perhaps you would be better able to read my posts and not hallucinate patterns if you weren’t in a blind rage.

        It really is unfortunate because I appreciate the information you gave in your initial response, but the hostility was so off-putting.

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          You certainly have a wild imagination because if you’re referring to the time I think you are, the last time you brought “receipts” it was you linking to posts of mine not containing anything you claimed I wrote.

          Fucking lol

          Maybe stop cheerleading atrocities and fascists if you can’t even keep track of how often you fucking do it.

          It really is unfortunate because I appreciate the information you gave in your initial response, but the hostility was so off-putting.

          Oh, I’m sorry that I was rude to you when all you were doing was trying to play your usual “Amerikkka Bad” card by whitewashing a dictator who tortured and murdered on a literally genocidal scale. You know, not unlike what you do with Assad? Would you like to play apologist for the Taliban next? I know you’re just drooling over the possibility.

          • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            2 days ago

            I don’t know what you think that link is supposed to show, but you’d have to be on something powerful to think me saying democrats should try to stop the genocide instead of sending billions in support is somehow me “cheerleading atrocities”.

            I still don’t know what I did to piss you off so much, but apparently you’re so angry that you’ve built a whole strawman of me and you’ve just been fighting with that strawman this entire time. Have fun with that, hope it helps you relieve stress.