UN voices alarm at growing number of child marriages in Iran
issues pamphlet on marriage and match-making is pictured in Tehran on March 14, 2010 (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Geneva (AFP) - A growing number of young girls are being forced to marry in Iran, UN rights experts warned Thursday, decrying laws permitting sexual intercourse with girls as young as nine./ Following a review of the situation in Iran, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) urged the country to "repeal all legal provisions that authorise, condone or lead to child sexual abuse." The committee, which is made up of 18 ...
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