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Iraq: Personal Status Law Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February ...
Has Iraq lowered minimum age for Muslim girls to marry to as young as nine-year-old? Here's truth
The amendment to the 1959 Personal Status Law allows people to choose between religious ... What is the legal age for Muslim ...
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ISIS militants 'massacre 80 Yazidi men and kidnap 100 women and girls in northern Iraq after they refuse to convert to Islam'
male members of the sect were reportedly shot dead Women and girls were allegedly kidnapped during the one-hour 'massacre' Comes as U.S. airstrikes have have destroyed two armed vehicles in Iraq ...
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HRW: Iraq personal status law amendment fails to protect women’s equal rights
Amendments to Iraq's Personal Status Law that came into effect on February 17, 2025, fail to adequately protect women's right to equality before the law and leave them vulnerable to abuse and ...
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Iraqi lawmakers pass a bill that critics say legalizes child marriage
which some interpret to allow marriage of girls in their early teens — or as young as 9 under the Jaafari school of Islamic law followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq. Proponents ...