An in dept analysis of the impact of the so called Ja’fari Law legalizing child marriages in Iraq.
By Ahang Habib Hawrami and Dr. Asos Namiq, Sbey Research, 22.10.2025
Girl’s school in Germnian, Picture: ADWI
A 9 years old girl cannot have driving license and drive a lifeless machine-like car, yet because of amendments of personal status law and Ja’fari Personal Status Law, she may marry, bear child and become mother. Envision a country where the mothers are denied the right to raise their own children, their rights inside out marriage are in danger. Picture, a legal system so fractured, that divides its people by sect, yet no one satisfied with his/her rights. Imagine, a region, supposed to be safe out of all this, yet not guaranteed! Finally vision a generation raised on this battleground of contradictions! This is a quite reality written in to a law called Ja’fari Personal Status Law in Iraq
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