​21 Years After Bush Overthrew Saddam, Bill In Iraqi Parliament Could Legitimize Child Marriage – Tyler Durden

21 Years After Bush Overthrew Saddam, Bill In Iraqi Parliament Could Legitimize Child Marriage Via Middle East Eye Women and children’s rights campaigners in Iraq have pushed back at proposals that could enshrine sectarianism in family relationships, hand more power in family matters to clerics and open the door for marriage to be legalized for children as young as nine years old. The amendments to Law No. 188, the Personal Status Law of 1959 have been heavily promoted by the Coordination Framework, a coalition of conservative Shia Islamist parties that form the largest bloc in parliament. Activists demonstrate against female child marriages…  — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More