Contact Admin. While exact statistics are difficult to come by in the closed country, Iranian agencies reportedly documented that at least 36, girls below 18 wed β with the vast majority taking place in the northeastern Zanjan Province, according to Radio Farda. UNICEF estimates that 17 percent of girls in Iran are married before reaching the age of 18 and in roughly 20 percent of those below the age of 15 are married to men at least ten years older.
Anti-child marriage activist site GirlsNotBrides. However, the site also cites poverty and the quest for families to trade girls for money or property, traditional customs and the importance of keeping marriage within the family unit, and the staunch Sharia-based religious system as driving factors for the ongoing epidemic of child brides.
Although Iran ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in , which stipulates that marriage cannot take place before the age of 18, numerous articles and provisions in support of the Islamic Sharia Law have enabled the trend to remain. The issue sparked a renewed wave of outrage in February after an year-old girl, identified under the pseudonym Raha, was repeatedly raped after being forced to marry a man 40 years her senior who already had a wife and seven children.
As it stands, girls under the age of 13 and boys under the age of 15 can be lawfully wed, providing families and husbands obtain legal permission. Fox News Flash top headlines for April She has extensively reported from war zones including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, and Latin America investigates global conflicts, war crimes and terrorism around the world.
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