Human rights advocates say that Iraq has moved a step closer to allowing girls as young as nine to marry, the Euro News website reports today (November 13, 2017).
The proposal is part of a draft law recently approved by 40 MPs that would see the restoration of religious courts, according to Equality Now (EN).
The proposed legislation would allow religious courts to decide a girl's age of marriage.
Suad Abu-Dayyeh, EN's Middle East consultant, said, according to some interpretations by Muslims, the wife of Prophet Muhammad "was married at the age of nine. That is why some religious sects in Iraq are following that."
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