Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls

Expand Demonstrators in Baghdad call International Women's Day a "day of mourning" in protest of Iraq's new draft Jaafari Personal Status Law, which would restrict women's rights in matters of inheritance, parental and other rights after divorce, make it easier for men to take multiple wives, and allow girls to be married from age 9. March 8, 2014. © 2014 Iraqi al-Amal Association (Beirut) - Iraq's parliament has rejected proposed amendments to Iraq's Personal Status Law (PSL) that would allow ...