February 10, 2022

Decapitated Child Bride Highlights Iran’s Lack of Protections for Girls and Women

Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means More Young Girls Will Be Murdered February ...

December 1, 2020

Easy State Loans Prompting Surge in Child Marriages in Iran

Child Marriages Rise Four-Fold as Parents Marry Off Their Children to Receive Loans Easily available loans provided by state-owned banks to cover marriage expenses are ...

February 21, 2019

Abuse of 11-Year-Old Child Bride in Iran Sees Some Lawmakers Calling for Reforms

News of an 11-year-old girl in the Iranian city of Ilam being repeatedly raped after being illegally married off to a man four times her age has renewed protests by some members of Parliament against the law that allows child marriage. The child, referred to by ...

December 28, 2018

Outrage After Judicial Parliamentary Committee Rejects Bill to Ban Child Marriages in Iran

Two years after it was introduced to Iran’s Parliament, the parliamentary Committee for Judicial and Legal Affairs has rejected a bill ...

December 21, 2018

Bill to Ban Child Marriages in Iran Facing Implacable Opposition by Religious Conservatives

Legislation Banning Marriages of Girls Under the Age of 13 Remains Stalled A proposed bill seeking to ban child ...

August 17, 2017

800 Activists Urge Iranian Parliament to End Child Marriage

Hundreds of Iranian women and children’s rights advocates in Iran are urging Parliament to prohibit underage marriage in the ...

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