Child Marriage

Articles

• USA: Founders of Mormon Doomsday Cult Traded Daughters as Child “Bridesâ€
  20 January 2018, by siawi3

  Their sect, a fundamentalist representation of Mormonism that emphasizes polygamy and child brides, treated these children like sexual property. “Prophet†or not, they will have to face a secular justice system for these crimes.

• India: Child Marriage among Indian Muslims: The Mullahs Have Brought Shame to the Muslim Community, Yet Again
  10 January 2018, by siawi3

  No sooner had the Supreme Court said that sex with a minor wife would amount to rape, Hashtags began to run on prominent news channels that Muslim clerics were opposing the verdict. Mullah after Mullah after Mullah opined that the judgment was in contravention of the Muslim personal law which flows from the Shariat. They contended that the Shariat proclaims that Muslim girls can get married as soon as they reach puberty.

• In Sri Lanka, Muslim women are fighting back against unfair marriage laws
  24 September 2016, by siawi3

  An ongoing reform process holds out hope for the campaign against child marriage, marital rape and other anti-woman practices under Muslim Personal Law. “When men talk about Muslim issues, they don’t talk about reforming Muslim Personal Law “.”They talk about land rights and reconciliation, they talk about how Muslims should unite and pray for Palestine and Syria, but no one wants to talk about the women suffering in our community.â€

• India: Temporary marriage with under age girls
  8 February 2015, by siawi3

  Muta’a marriage introduced in India. Police cracking down on contract marriages of minor girls from poor families with rich Arabs for a short period of time.

• Iran must stop forced and early marriages and end discrimination against sexual minorities
  30 January 2015, by siawi3

  Illegalisation of forced and early marriages, banning forced sex change operations, and formal recognition of the rights of sexual minorities are among recommendations offered by various countries during the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the situation of human rights in Iran.

• Pakistan: Having spent 19 years in jail for a crime she did not commit, a child bride from Punjab seeks compensation
  17 April 2020, by siawi3

  Married as a child and wrongly imprisoned for nearly 20 years over the murder of her husband, Rani Bibi is now free and fighting for compensation in a test case for thousands of other false convictions. Her release signalled the start of a new battle.

• India’s Lockdown Has Caused an Explosion of Child Marriages
  11 July 2020, by siawi3

  According to one social worker “COVID-19 has provided a perfect breeding ground for this social evil to flourish.”

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