Masoum calls for delaying the adoption of the Personal Status Law and the completion of late legislation

[10 YEARS LATER]

They're all over this yet Oil & Gas Law is where, exactly ??????

[SocalDinar]

What a scumbag country!

[SocalDinar]

On 11/11/2017 at 8:31 AM, boosterbglee said:

Another good reason to cash in and wash my hands of these filthy pigs!

i cashed in long ago. These people are trash...

[SocalDinar]

No 9 year olds pain and suffering on my hands. Anyone with a good conscience would do the same

[newbieDA]

On 11/10/2017 at 11:36 AM, Butifldrm said:

If passed, the law would only apply to the country's Shiite citizens and residents.

 

 

[DoD]

The years I worked in Afghanistan an saw pictures an read about what the Afghan soldiers were given to stand guard at the check points for months on end was sickening. The pictures of 8-9 year old boys pimped out an dressed up for the pleasure of these sick men was disgusting. I kept thinking American soldiers are over here dying for this sick an perverted country. It will be interesting to see if there are enough sane an civilized people in Iraq to vote down this new law the sick and deranged politicians are wanting to pass.

You would think at some point in time Iraq would want to escape the life style an customs of predators from 2000 years ago.

[siberian_shaddow]

Much Appreciated, I am without words it's one the worst things you could imagine as most of us here are parents. My Daughter is 10 last month and the thought of some nasty fat slob touching mine or any child brings out a rage, when it comes to this I don't care about the dinar, I wouldn't feel right taken money from someone knowing there doing this to children. It's about life and respect and morals which these filthy animals don't seem to have or care to have, this is just my opinion sorry for the rant.  But I believe children are our future and they need to be children first. 

Edited December 1, 2017 by siberian_shaddow

[Butifldrm]

Iraq: Ambiguity over legal age of marriage could devastate childhoods, warn UN officials

A young girl writes on a whiteboard during class at a school in Dohuk governorate, Iraq. Photo: UNICEF/Mackenzie

 

 

4 December 2017 – Voicing concern over proposed amendments to laws governing marriage in Iraq – in particular the ambiguity over the legal age of marriage – senior United Nations officials called on the country to ensure adequate protection for children across Iraq.

“It is a matter of concern that these draft amendments are silent on the minimum age of consent to marriage and do not apply to all components of Iraqi society,” said Representatives of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, and for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, in a statement, the Iraqi Council of Representative’s approval in principle of the draft law – that does not explicitly set the minimum age of marriage to 18-years for both women and men – represents a significant step back from commitments to prevent and address sexual violence.

The two UN senior officials also raised fears of increase in divisions within the country at a time when Iraq is recovering from the conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or Da’esh).

They also cautioned that the proposed amendments could lead to possible breaches of Iraq’s legally binding commitments under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as well as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

“My Office was repeatedly assured by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the Speaker of the Council of Representatives Salim al-Jabouri that the fulfilment of each of the pillars of the Joint Communiqué are essential to Iraq’s post-Da’esh reconstruction,” Ms. Patten stated.

A key pillar of the Joint Communiqué (signed by the Iraqi Foreign Minister with the UN, formally committing to prevent and address conflict-related sexual violence) is to ‘support legislative and policy reform to strengthen protection from and service response to sexual violence crimes.

Noting that the boys and girls of Iraq, already victims of grave violations resulting from years of conflict with Da’esh, are now “at risk of being deprived of their childhood,” Ms. Gamba called on the Government to “take all necessary actions to protect every child by preventing the adoption of policies that can harm children already exposed to armed conflict.”

SRSG Patten and Gamba concluded by strongly “urging the Government of Iraq to reconsider these proposed amendments to the Personal Status Law” and reaffirming their commitment “to stand with both the Government and people of Iraq to ensure that the scourge of sexual violence is eliminated and that children affected by armed conflict are protected.”

 

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58220#.WiaZmkqnGUk

[nannab]

This is so wrong. Thanks Butifldrm

[SnowGlobe7]

2 hours ago, nannab said:

This is so wrong. Thanks Butifldrm

 

You have never been more right my dear!

[The Englishman]

UN urges Iraq to review draft law for minimum age of marriage

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A group of children laugh and play at a school in Iraq. (Photo: United Nations)

 

United Nations Iraq Child Marriage 

 

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Representatives of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) on Monday urged Iraq to review its proposals for the minimum age of marriage in the country.

In a joint statement, the Special Representatives of the SRSG on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, and for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, called on the Iraqi government to reconsider the legal provisions governing marriage.

In November, the Parliament of Iraq in Baghdad in principle approved a draft bill which allows girls as young as 9-years-old to be married off.

“The boys and girls of Iraq, already victims of grave violations resulting from years of conflict, are now at risk of being deprived of their childhood,” Gamba stated.

“The government of Iraq must take all necessary actions to protect every child by preventing the adoption of policies that can harm children already exposed to armed conflict,” the Children and Armed Conflict representative added.

According to the representatives, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi assured the UN in September that his government would “prevent and address conflict-related sexual violence” following the horrific acts committed by the Islamic State (IS).

However, in their joint statement, Patten and Gamba noted that the approval in principle of a draft law concerning underage marriage “would represent a significant step back from those commitments.”

“It could also increase divisions at a time when Iraq is recovering from the impact of the conflict with [IS] as well as conflict-related sexual violence,” the joint statement added.

The draft law received criticism from officials in the Kurdistan Region as well as the United States.

On Nov. 10, Fairooza Taha, Deputy Head of the Kurdistan Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights, denounced the proposal as “obviously against the internationally-recognized rights of women and children.”

She also explained that it would not be applied in Kurdistan, which has its own government and parliament.

On the same day, US State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert strongly criticized the Iraqi Parliament’s approval, likening the pending legislation to the practices of IS.

 

Editing by Sam A.

[Butifldrm]

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Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls

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Demonstrators in Baghdad call International Women's Day a "day of mourning" in protest of Iraq's new draft Jaafari Personal Status Law, which would restrict women's rights in matters of inheritance, parental and other rights after divorce, make it easier for men to take multiple wives, and allow girls to be married from age 9. March 8, 2014.

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(Beirut) – Iraq’s parliament has rejected proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law (PSL) that would allow religious judges to impose discriminatory law on family matters, Human Rights Watch said today.

The amendments would have covered areas including inheritance and divorce, and, by giving powers to impose family laws to certain religious communities, would have allowed girls to be married as young as age 8 under some of these laws. The head of the women’s rights committee in parliament rejected the initiative in mid-November, blocking the bill. However, two leading women’s rights organizations say that some parliament members have threatened to continue to push for the amendments to secure votes in some parts of the country in the May 2018 parliamentary elections.

“Parliament’s women’s rights committee has made a great contribution to Iraqi society in rejecting this effort to scuttle Iraq’s family law protections,” said Belkis Wille, senior Iraq researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Threats by lawmakers to dismantle protections under the current law and restore discriminatory laws would be devastating to women’s rights.”

Parliament members from several Shia Islamic parties, spearheaded by the Fadhila Party, to which the justice minister belongs, proposed the amendments on November 1. The proposed amendments would enshrine Shia and Sunni religious establishment control over marriage-related matters and require courts to make exceptions to existing legal protections.

Hanaa Edwar, founder and general secretary of Al-Amal Association, a leading Iraqi human rights organization, and a member of the Human Rights Watch Middle East Advisory Committee, said the members also threatened to continue to push for the amendments unless the women’s rights committee dropped key protections in a domestic violence bill pending before parliament since 2015.

“The proposed amendments seek to establish sectarianism and undermine the principle of citizenship and national identity of Iraq,” Edwar told Human Rights Watch. “The amendments would violate key rights enshrined in Iraq’s constitution and laws, and would treat women as inferior to men.”

The current law applies to everyone regardless of their religious affiliation, and is administered by Iraq’s secular court system. The proposed amendments instead would require the secular courts to apply religious law on marriage, divorce, and inheritance. The amendments also recommend – but do not require – establishing specialized Personal Status Courts, headed by religious judges, to adjudicate family law issues.

The current law sets the legal age for marriage at 18, but allows a judge to permit girls as young as 15 to be married in “urgent” cases. According to a 2016 The United Nations Childrens’ Fund (UNICEF) report, 5 percent of Iraqi children are married by age 15, and 24 percent by age 18. According to a women’s rights lawyer, this is because many families arrange marriages through religious marriage contracts outside the legal system, though they are illegal.

The amendments also would undermine protections for divorced women. Under the current law, if a husband requests a divorce, the wife has the right to remain in their marital home for three years at the husband’s expense and to receive two years of maintenance and the current value of her dowry. If a wife requests a divorce, a judge can award her some of these benefits depending on the circumstances.

Because religious law offers fewer protections, under the proposed amendments, women would have lost many of these protections. For example, under the Jaafari Shia school of law, the woman has no right to the marital home, maintenance, or her dowry and children remain living with her for only two years, regardless of their age, during which she is not allowed to remarry.

Women would also lose some inheritance rights. Even under existing law, daughters inherit a lower proportion of a parent’s wealth than sons. But under some religious laws, daughters would inherit even less and if the family has no son to inherit the agricultural land, it would revert to the state.

“The current personal status law was drafted by taking the most rights-upholding aspects of the different sects in Iraq,” Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, told Human Rights Watch. “The push for these amendments is part of a political game linked to the upcoming May 2018 parliamentary elections.”

She said that while the driving forces behind these amendments came from a group of Shia Islamic parties, she feared that some Sunni members of parliament would also support them to give the clergy more authority over daily life. This is the second attempt in recent years to introduce discriminatory religious personal status laws. In February 2014 the Council of Ministers approved a draft law, the “Jaafari Personal Status Law,” which would have covered Iraq’s Shia citizens and residents, prohibited them from marrying non-Muslims, effectively legalized marital rape, prevented women from leaving the house without their husbands’ permission, and allowed girls younger than 9 to be married with a parent’s approval. After pressure from local human rights activists, parliament did not move the bill forward.

These new proposed amendments violate the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which Iraq ratified in 1986, by giving fewer rights to women and girls on the basis of their gender. They also violate the Convention on Rights of the Child, which Iraq ratified in 1994, by legalizing child marriage, putting girls at risk of forced and early marriage and susceptible to sexual abuse, and not requiring decisions about children in divorce cases to be made in the best interests of the child. The draft amendments appear to violate the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by granting fewer rights to certain people on the basis of their religion.

The draft amendments also starkly contrast with article 14 of Iraq’s constitution, which prohibits “discrimination and distinction between Iraqis” and guarantees the equality of all Iraqis “without distinction to religion, faith, nationality, sex, opinion, economic or social status.” Article 13 of Iraq’s constitution stipulates that it is the “supreme law” in Iraq and that “no law that contradicts this Constitution shall be enacted.”

The CEDAW committee, the body of international experts who review state compliance with CEDAW, concluded in 2013 that, “identity-based personal status laws and customs perpetuate discrimination against women and that the preservation of multiple legal systems is in itself discriminatory against women.”

In its 2013 review, the CEDAW committee has previously recommended that Iraq repeal discriminatory legal exceptions to the minimum age of marriage for girls. It said that legal exceptions to the minimum age of marriage should be granted only in exceptional cases and authorized by a competent court for both girls and boys, and only in cases in which they are at least 16 and give their express consent.

“While lawmakers may have failed this time around, the threat of these terrible amendments still looms, and is being used as leverage to try to whittle away at key human rights protections in the domestic violence law,” Wille said. “Iraqi parliamentarians should reject these efforts to reverse the progress Iraqi society has made in creating laws that protect all of its citizens.

 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/17/iraq-parliament-rejects-marriage-8-year-old-girls

[DIAMOND]

I guess after corruption comes the pedophiles lol

[Starrider]

This is just SICK and I'm not gonna give this anymore of my time.

[Rockymtnhi]

Trot the AH's that drafted this law along with any others that support it up to the roof of any 20 story building and shove them off......... after they have been castrated. 

[Gypsygirl11]

So its rejected....Thank God! 

[Butifldrm]

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called on the President, Fuad Masum, on Tuesday, to await passage of the Personal Status Law and the late completion of the constitutional legislation. 
A statement issued by the Information Office of the President of the Republic, received by "Al-Ghad Press" a copy, that the infallible received at the Palace of Peace in Baghdad this morning, Deputy Chairman of the Legal Committee in the House of Representatives, Qasim Aboudi.

The statement added that "Masoum listened at the beginning of the meeting to a presentation presented by Aboudi, the legislative strategy of the House of Representatives for the second legislative term of the fourth year, including electoral legislation and the draft law of the Federal Supreme Court and the Council of the Union and the Personal Status Law. 
"The legislative priority should be given to the laws that the constitution stipulates within a period of time, such as the law of the Federation Council, which was to be enacted in the first session and to be formed in the second session," he said. 
He called on the President of the Republic to "wait for legislation to amend the Personal Status Law and present the proposal to competent bodies for study and research." 
He also noted "the need to adhere to the constitutional timing of the upcoming parliamentary elections and the need to present the date of elections on the agenda of the Council."

 

https://www.alghadpress.com/news/اخبار-العراق-السياسية/136046/معصوم-يدعو-للتريث-باقرار-قانون-الأحوال-الشخصية-وان

[Bama Girl]

The subject of young girls marrying or any child being used like this sickens me to no end. And to think these sick heathen actually do this for supposedly religious reasons. Anyone who puts a child ( boy or girl) in this position and anyone who uses a child like this will surely burn in hell and I hope the hottest area if there is such an area. 😡🔥🔥🔥🔥 

What is just as sickening is the pervasiveness of child pornography in this country. I know, I know, off topic, 🙄 but it just came out. Sorry. 😔

[yota691]

Elder Delir: Electoral motives women will fall into the "trap" modified personal status

 

 Since 2018-01-10 at 09:40 (Baghdad time)

 Baghdad - Mawazine News

A member of the House of Representatives for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Rizan Sheikh Diller, amended the Personal Status Law to "trade" Iraqi women who fled from the oppression of "some of the representatives of the people who are trying to legitimize their sale for electoral reasons.

"The amendment of the Personal Status Law, which will enable a man to marry more than one, under the pretext of" reducing "the number of widows and widows in government statistics, is a kind of" trading "for those who escaped from oppression, Sheikh Diller said in a statement received by Mawazine News. And others, to fall into this trap by the so-called representatives of the people, and electoral motives exposed and manifestly clear. "

"This amendment to the Personal Status Law is a kind of exploitation of the need of some men who will" covet "the amount proposed in this law to marry those segments and abandon their wives and children," she said, calling for the need to "pay attention to the seriousness of this subject to the agreements that may be made Between men and women widows and divorced women to contract suspicious deals with the intention of receiving the sum and sharing and then divorce.

"These amounts can be used to set up projects for women who are widowed or released in liberated areas or to build destroyed projects or spend them on displaced people, rather than in projects that threaten marital families to disintegrate and disintegrate," she said.

She pointed out to the necessity of attention and not to be dragged behind those projects that could disrupt their marital life and refrain from promoting them in the social networking sites as is currently happening. The Legal Committee is called upon to reconsider this amendment, which can be more negative than its positives.

 

[TOMINVEGAS]

“In November, the Parliament of Iraq in Baghdad in principle approved a draft bill which allows girls as young as 9-years-old to be married off.”

 

The Iraqi Parliament scumbags hard at work....

[Butifldrm]

Personal Status Law is on the Parliament Agenda this Session! Sicko"s

 

 

Agenda of Session No. (3) Monday, 8 January 2018

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   First:  Reading verses from the Holy Quran.

Second:  Vote on the date set for the elections.

 Third: The  first reading of the draft law of the federal budget of the Republic of Iraq for fiscal year 2018. (Financial Committee), (48 articles).

 Fourth:  First reading of the proposed amendment to the Third Law of the Union of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce No. (43) for the year 1989. (Committee of Civil Society Organizations, Committee on Economy and Investment, Legal Committee) (6 article).

Fifth: First reading of the proposed amendment to the Personal Status Law No. (188) for the year 1959 amended. (Legal Committee) (Article 3).

 Sixth:  Report and discussion of the draft law of the sixth amendment to the law of implementation No. (45) for the year 1980. (Legal Committee) (13 article).

Seventh: Report and discussion of a draft law on the characterization of the national campaign to build schools and kindergartens. (Education Committee) (5 article). 

Eighth: Report and discuss the draft law to change the name of Qadisiyah and Tamim provinces to the provinces of Diwaniyah and Kirkuk. (Committee of Regions and Governorates not organized in the region, the Legal Committee) (4 article).

Ninth: Report and discussion of the draft law on communications and informatics (Commission for Services and Reconstruction, Culture and Information Committee) (42 articles).

Tenth:  Report and discussion of the draft law of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Committee on Services and Reconstruction, Legal Committee). (13 articles).

  The session begins at 1:00 pm.

 

http://ar.parliament.iq/2018/01/08/جـــــــدول-اعمـــــــال-الجلسـ/

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Like the marriage of 8 year girls should even be brought up at all denotes a very dark, sick & vile nature in this culture. 

[Butifldrm]

"The amendment of the Personal Status Law, which will enable a man to marry more than one, under the pretext of" reducing "the number of widows and widows in government statistics, is a kind of" trading "for those who escaped from oppression, Sheikh Diller said in a statement received by Mawazine News. And others, to fall into this trap by the so-called representatives of the people, and electoral motives exposed and manifestly clear. "

 

Deputy reveals the marriage of Abadi wife "second"

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 Sumer News: A member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on Thursday, the marriage of "Prime Minister Haider Abadi wife" again. "

And wrote MP Jamila al-Obeidi, on her official account in Twitter, that the information is almost certain I received confirmation of Mr. Prime Minister Dr. Abadi married the second wife, a thousand congratulations.

"I am very happy to hear that there is an Iraqi who married more than one wife, so how can the second one marry the Iraqi prime minister," she said.

She concluded by saying, "Mubarak, your marriage is the state of the president with well-being and sons."

 

http://sumer.news/ar/news/25971/نائبة-تكشف-عن-زواج-العبادي-بزوجة-ثانية

[Butifldrm]

Watching the killing of an Iraqi bride

 

53 minutes ago

 

Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday that an Iraqi bride was killed because of the hymen .

"The horrific murder of an Iraqi woman in her home is pushing the new Iraqi parliament, once it is formed, to pass a bill against domestic violence that has been suspended since 2015, " the organization said in its report on August 8, 2018 .

Although the murderer will probably be tried for his crime, he may ease his sentence under a provision of the Iraqi Penal Code that allows for mitigating sentences - including murder - for so-called "honest motives, " the report said.

"There is no honor in such unnecessary and brutal killing. Furthermore, the victim was only one of hundreds of women and children who suffer violence at the hands of their families in Iraq each year, " he said.

"If approved, the new family violence law in Iraq will require the government to protect survivors of this type of violence by issuing restraining orders and penalties for breaching them, and establishing an interministerial committee to combat domestic violence. The law also requires the government to provide shelters to Women at risk of violence are safe if they are forced to flee their homes . "

"The draft bill is not perfect, has many impurities, and can be improved, including families' preference to address violence through reconciliation committees rather than prosecution, and the Iraqi authorities should also impose clear penalties for the crime of domestic violence, Allows the aggressors to obtain mitigating penalties for so-called honor crimes. The bill ignored this point . "

"If the bill improves, it will be the best opportunity for the new Iraqi parliament to address the scourge of domestic violence, meet its international legal obligations on domestic violence and save a large number of Iraqi women and children, " he said.

His bridegroom returned to her parents a day after their wedding, on the grounds that she was not a virgin. At the hearing, a member of her family beat her to death while the police arrested the accused .

http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=3154&MapID=2

[pokerplayer]

 

7 minutes ago, Butifldrm said:

Watching the killing of an Iraqi bride

 

53 minutes ago

 

Human Rights Watch reported on Wednesday that an Iraqi bride was killed because of the hymen .

"The horrific murder of an Iraqi woman in her home is pushing the new Iraqi parliament, once it is formed, to pass a bill against domestic violence that has been suspended since 2015, " the organization said in its report on August 8, 2018 .

Although the murderer will probably be tried for his crime, he may ease his sentence under a provision of the Iraqi Penal Code that allows for mitigating sentences - including murder - for so-called "honest motives, " the report said.

"There is no honor in such unnecessary and brutal killing. Furthermore, the victim was only one of hundreds of women and children who suffer violence at the hands of their families in Iraq each year, " he said.

"If approved, the new family violence law in Iraq will require the government to protect survivors of this type of violence by issuing restraining orders and penalties for breaching them, and establishing an interministerial committee to combat domestic violence. The law also requires the government to provide shelters to Women at risk of violence are safe if they are forced to flee their homes . "

"The draft bill is not perfect, has many impurities, and can be improved, including families' preference to address violence through reconciliation committees rather than prosecution, and the Iraqi authorities should also impose clear penalties for the crime of domestic violence, Allows the aggressors to obtain mitigating penalties for so-called honor crimes. The bill ignored this point . "

"If the bill improves, it will be the best opportunity for the new Iraqi parliament to address the scourge of domestic violence, meet its international legal obligations on domestic violence and save a large number of Iraqi women and children, " he said.

His bridegroom returned to her parents a day after their wedding, on the grounds that she was not a virgin. At the hearing, a member of her family beat her to death while the police arrested the accused .

http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=3154&MapID=2

 

Simply disgusting that something like that in this day and age can occur.

 

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