Summary
Proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as 9 to marry, sparking outrage from rights groups and survivors like “Batta,” who endured abuse after being forced into marriage at 11.
The changes would shift decision-making power to clerics, undermining existing protections for women and children established in 1959.
Supporters claim the amendments promote family values, but critics call them a violation of children’s rights and a step toward legalized child abuse.
Activists and lawmakers are working to block the controversial proposal.
Cue some depraved westerners trying to make them stray from their religion
Also
Cue some damn non-westerners who think that the Soviet Union and China didn’t/don’t suppress religion.
Are you an AI or just completely ignorant of history? It is literally a defining attribute of communism.