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Title:	Sexual exploitation of young girls in early marriages: a legal study in Iraq
Authors:	Lana Majid Hayder (P79322)
Supervisor:	Rohani Abdul Rahim, Dr.
Keywords:	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia Child protection Human right
Issue Date:	4-Dec-2017
Description:	Early marriage continues to be a challenge worldwide, particularly in Iraq. Despite international agreements and national laws, marriage of girls under 18 years of age is common worldwide and it is affecting the society. This is because child marriage is a human rights violation that prevents girls from obtaining an education, enjoying optimal health, bonding with others of their own age, maturing, and ultimately choosing their own life partners. The practice of old-fashioned customs, lack of education, culture and poverty lead people to marry at an early age in Iraq. The tradition, driven by poverty, is perpetuated to ensure girls' financial futures and to reinforce social ties. The objective of this thesis write-up is to identify and understand in-depth on the problem of children early marriages in Iraq. That are to find out how they become expose to such, to identify the International laws and instruments, and the available domestic laws that are relevant to eradicate such practices that sexually exploited young girls. And finally to suggest some changes needed to ensure some protection to them. The methodology used in this thesis is qualitative legal case study and data are collected from various sources through library work. They were analyses to give some insight to the issues at hand and suggesting changes to the findings. Some of these findings are (a) Iraqi law is not conforming to CEDAW. (b) The Law give rights to judges to allow marriage of young girls. (c) Iraqi laws do not state the minimum age for marriage. (d) There is differences in the age of criminal responsibility of Children. (e) Marriage of young girls are practice arbitrarily (f) Young girls are not having opportunity to pursue their education. (g) Judges are using their discretion arbitrarily. (h) Equality promoted in the constitution are not practiced strictly. (i) Iraqi laws do not protect women and children. (j) Iraqi laws needs to be review to determine discrepancies that exploit women and children. (k) Media is not playing their role to create awareness on the exploitation of women and children. (l) Families are not aware of the existing laws that can protect women and children. In conclusion, young girls needs to be protected against culture practice that sexually exploited them for purpose of men lust.,Master of Law
Pages:	118
Call Number:	C45.LAN 2017 2 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Law / Fakulti Undang-undang

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