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Outrage as Iraq plans to lower ‘age of consent’ for girls to nine
A proposed amendment to Iraq’s personal status law ... The proposed change is a stark departure from the 1959 law (Law 188) that transferred family law authority from religious figures to the state ...
I was a child bride at 15 & forced to marry 30-year-old man by my own dad – I was raped everyday to get me pregnant
MAKING her way down the aisle in a red and gold sari, Rubie Marie’s eyes filled with tears as she neared the man she was ...