 |
Iran: Official
statistics on child girl marriages
|
"In the past two years, our statistics indicate that we have had
marriages of girls under 10 years of age," said Shahindokht Molaverdi,
presidential deputy on Women and Family Affairs. She said most of these
marriages take place because of poverty and in borderline provinces.
According
to the laws in Iran, the legal age of marriage is 13 for girls and 15 for boys,
but if a father decides that he wants to wed his daughter in younger age, the
law permits him to do so.
The
data made available by the National Data Registry Organization, 75 children
under 10 years of age were married in 2012. Also 29,827 girls between 10 and 14
years old were married.
The
marriages of more than 31,000 girls under 15 years of age have been registered
between March and September 2013. This is while many of the marriages with
underage girls are not registered in Iran.
(State-run T.News website, Fars news agency,
September 11, 2015)
No comments:
Post a Comment