Astonishingly Barbaric: New proposals in Iraq to amend the country’s Personal Status Law would allow grown men to marry girls as young as 9

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Iraqi government officials are making headlines this weekend amid reports that proposals to change the country’s Personal Status Law are coming.

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First proposed a while back, the proposals are again making headlines as Iraqi government officials continue taking the country backward. Proposed under the country’s barbaric Personal Status Law the amendment to the law would allow grown men to marry young girls further this time as young as 9 years old. NBC News spoke to one former child-wife survivor who fears for the safety of young girls in a country that treats women like objects.