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
    51·
    2 days ago

    Were illegal marriages a thing when Saddam was still in charge, or were legislation proposals with any ambiguity about passing a thing when Saddam was still in charge?

    Yes. No. Respectively.

    Great JAQing off about a dictator who gouged out children’s eyes.

    For those wondering about the issue of child marriage in Iraq before the modern day who aren’t perpetual apologists for whatever fascists they can find to drool over,

    “I lost my life the day my marriage began. I was 13, and the man I had to marry was 20 years older than me.” Shaima’s story is one told only within the intimacy of a home. Nestled on the couch of a modest yet tastefully decorated living room, she sips her Turkish coffee, ensuring there are enough grounds left to read her fortune in search of signs of better days. She smokes cigarette after cigarette, taking a long drag before exhaling as if symbolically releasing her life story.

    Born in 1977 in a village near Basra in southern Iraq, Shaima was the eldest of nine siblings raised amid the violence of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War. It was a childhood “with just enough money to buy bread each day, nothing more,” she recalled. “My father sold me to the brother of one of his friends. I didn’t want to marry him; he was too old, violent, and always angry. But I couldn’t refuse.” From this forced marriage came five children. “I had my first child at 14. I was so young and exhausted that one day, I fell asleep while breastfeeding my baby girl. She suffocated and died.” The silence that followed the confession is crushing.

    https://international.la-croix.com/world/in-iraq-activists-fight-against-potential-return-of-child-marriages

    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      2 days ago

      I don’t know why you have to be so hostile over a genuine question.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

        Because you have a pattern of ‘just asking questions’ on every fascist cunt who comes up? I apologize for having a basic sense of pattern recognition.

          • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            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
              11·
              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
                2·
                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
                  11·
                  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.