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Iraq: Reject changes to Personal Status Law which would allow child marriage and further entrench discrimination
Iraqi lawmakers must drop amendments to the Personal Status Law, which would violate women and girls' rights, further entrench discrimination and could allow for girls as young as nine to be married, Amnesty International said, ahead of an imminent parliamentary vote on the changes.
"Iraqi lawmakers must heed the warnings of civil society and women's rights groups on the devastating impact of these amendments, which would eliminate the current legal marriage age of 18 for both girls and boys, paving the way for child marriages, as well as stripping women and girls of protections regarding divorce and inheritance,"said Razaw Salihy, Amnesty International's Iraq researcher.
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