{"id":12768,"date":"2019-09-14T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T07:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=12768"},"modified":"2021-10-12T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:11:37","slug":"child-marriage-iran-iranian-women-maryam-rajavi-ncri-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/09\/child-marriage-iran-iranian-women-maryam-rajavi-ncri-mek\/12768\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Marriage in Iran: A National Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><p>The girl is said to be around 11. The man is reportedly twice her age. They were recently wed in a remote southwestern\u00a0Iranian\u00a0province with a video of the ceremony posted online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u0648\u06cc\u062f\u0626\u0648\u06cc \u0639\u0642\u062f \u06cc\u06a9 \u06a9\u0648\u062f\u06a9 11 \u0633\u0627\u0644\u0647 \u0628\u0627 \u06cc\u06a9 \u0645\u0631\u062f 22 \u0633\u0627\u0644\u0647\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-zTEy1iy_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Child marriage in Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone\nwho heard this was shocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But child\nmarriage is becoming more common and is on the rise under the rule of Mullahs,\nwho established a religious dictatorship in 1979. Not only the regime has taken\nno action to prevent child marriages, but its misogynistic policies and laws\nhave further exacerbated this situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Increasing\npressure and restrictions on\u00a0Iranian\u00a0women in addition to various\nobstacles to their employment and social activities, marriage laws and\nwidespread poverty are some of the main causes of growing depression and despair\namong women in\u00a0Iran,\u00a0leading to growing suicide rates among women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Iran, the legal age of marriage for girls is,\n13 with parental consent\u2014girls younger than can be married with permission from\na judge. For boys, the legal age for marriage is 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nAccording to\u00a0statistics\u00a0released by\u00a0Iran\u2019s\u00a0National\nOrganization for Civil Registration, from March 2013 to March 2017, 1,007 girls\nunder the age of 10 and more than 190,000 girls younger than 14 were married\nin\u00a0Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\npractice has been on the rise in\u00a0Iran\u00a0and the\u00a0United\nNations\u00a0condemned the country for the rising number of young girls forced\ninto marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) <a>said\u00a0Tehran\u00a0must \u201crepeal all provisions that authorize, condone or lead to child sexual abuse.\u201d<\/a>(NEWS Week  \u00a02\/5\/16 on Child marriage in Iran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover,\nthe Committee called for the age of sexual consent to be increased from nine to\n16 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CRC\nadded an increasing number of \u201cgirls at the age of 10 years or younger\u2026 are\nsubjected to child and forced marriages to much older men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estimates from the\u00a0United Nations\u00a0children\u2019s agency, UNICEF, in 2016 indicate that 17 percent of girls in\u00a0Iran\u00a0were married before the age of 18(Child marriage in Iran). And according to statistics from the\u00a0Iranian\u00a0National Organization for Civil Registration quoted in 2015 by the Center for\u00a0Human Rights\u00a0in\u00a0Iran,\u00a0over 40,000 girls under the age of 15 had registered their marriages during the preceding year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts say the real number of child marriages\nin\u00a0Iran\u00a0could be much higher, as many of the marriages are not\nofficially registered. This creates a complex problem, where the spouses\nin\u00a0unregistered marriages have no civil rights\u00a0and the children from\nthese marriages have no birth certificates.\u00a0Children born\nin\u00a0unregistered child marriages are therefore deprived of education and\nsocial protection, and face a future beset by poverty, juvenile crime and\naddiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another category of child marriage identified\nby experts is based on people in poverty seeking economic gain. These parents\nsend away their daughters very young to the groom\u2019s house in exchange for a\nbride price. Early marriage is a form of child abuse and it violates children\u2019s\nrights, girls\u2019\u00a0in particular.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,\neveryone under the age of 18 is considered a child and is entitled to all the\nrights included in the convention, which include the right of girls to be\n\u201cfree from all forms of discrimination, inhuman and degrading treatment,\nand slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0Iranian regime\u00a0signed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UN_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child\">UN Convention on the Rights of the Child<\/a>\u00a0(CRC) in 1991, and ratified it in 1994. Upon ratification,\u00a0The regime\u00a0made the following reservation: \u201cIf the text of the Convention is or becomes incompatible with the domestic laws and Islamic standards at any time or in any case, the Government of the Islamic Republic shall not abide by it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Women Burn Themselves To Evade Oppressive Marriage Laws In\u00a0Iran<\/em>(Child marriage in Iran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nsuicides of a young woman and a mother of four in the span of a week have\nfocused attentions on the misogynist marriage laws in\u00a0Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\n16-year-old young woman named Ziba set herself on fire to evade her family\u2019s\ninsistence that she marries an old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-run Khorasan daily published a report on August 26, 2019, saying that the young woman was being\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forced_marriage\" target=\"_blank\">forced into this marriage<\/a>\u00a0by her step mother. According to this report, many parts of Ziba\u2019s face and body were burned, but she has been released from hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nanother shocking report from Dehloran, a married woman by the name of Mandana\nHosseini, mother of four sons, set herself ablaze to\u00a0protest\u00a0her\nhusband\u2019s second marriage. She died after four days in a medical center in Ilam\non August 19, 2019, due to the extent of the burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based\non the clerical regime\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2015\/11\/08\/misogyny-institutionalized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">oppressive\u00a0<\/a>marriage\nlaws, men can have four wives. At the same time, they are authorized to divorce\ntheir wives without informing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nstate-run daily Entekhab published a report in March 2019, citing Ali Kazemi,\nadvisor to the legal deputy of the Judiciary Branch. According to Kazemi,\n\u201cBetween 500,000-600,000 children get married every year\n(in\u00a0Iran)\u00a0according to officially-registered data. The main problem\nis that there are marriages taking place beyond those officially registered.\u201d\n(The state-run daily Entekhab \u2013 March 4, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iranobserver.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/17-girls-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"Child marriage in Iran\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\"><figcaption> Child marriage in Iran <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, there were at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2019\/06\/16\/forcible-marriage-among-reasons-for-suicide-among-young-iranian-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two reports<\/a>\u00a0on\nsuicides of young women due to forcible marriage. Souma Khedri, 19, from Baneh,\nand Sara Esmaili, 17, from Piranshahr, committed suicide to evade forcible\nmarriage due to lack of legal protection for women under the law. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Child marriage in Iran<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Iranian\u00a0women have no form of support (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/09\/10\/violence-against-women-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iranian\u00a0women have no form of support<\/a> in the face of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2015\/11\/08\/misogyny-institutionalized\/\" target=\"_blank\">misogyny institutionalized in Iranian\u00a0laws<\/a>. Instead of removing the structural and discriminatory obstacles and providing equal economic opportunities for women, the\u00a0Iranian regime\u00a0is reinforcing its laws and regulations which discriminate against and marginalize women. The\u00a0Iranian regime\u2019s laws see women as slaves at the disposal of men, and therefore, women ultimately resort to suicide to avoid further pressure in family disputes and\u00a0Iran\u00a0stands as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2019\/02\/01\/suicide-young-women-iran-pressure\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first record holder<\/a>\u00a0in the Middle East with regards to suicides among women. Also, according to the laws of the mullahs\u2019 regime, the blood money of a woman is half of that of a man. If a man murders a woman, the victim\u2019s family must pay the family of the murderer an amount of money equal to the blood money of their daughter to have the regime\u2019s judiciary punish the male murderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2017\/11\/06\/iran-rate-of-women-s-suicide-rose-66-in-five-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social pathologist<\/a>, the\nrate of suicides among women in\u00a0Iran\u00a0increased by 66 percent during a\nfive-year period. (The state-run Khabar Online \u2013 November 3, 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammad\nMehdi Tondgouyan, deputy in youths\u2019 affairs at the Ministry of Sports and\nYouths, revealed for the first time the figures on suicide in\u00a0Iran\u00a0on\nAugust 19, 2018. Tondgouyan said 4,992 persons had committed suicide in\u00a0Iran\u00a0from\nMarch 2017 to March 2018, adding, \u201cTwo-thirds of those inclined to commit\nsuicide are women and one-third are men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nother news, Behzad Sattari, general director of the Welfare Organization\nin\u00a0Ardabil\u00a0announced that early marriages have become common practice\nin that province. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sattari\npointed out, \u201cOut of a total of 12,000 marriages over the past year in this\nprovince, 37 percent (i.e. 4,400) have been from among girls between 10 to 14\nyears of age. This is while 42 percent of the total number of marriages in this\nprovince were from among women under 19 years of age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on\ndata published by the national registrar, 37,000 girls between 10 and 14 years\nof age were married in 2015 in\u00a0Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a sociologist, \u201cEarly marriages make slaves out of girl children. Not only they are subjugated by their husbands, but since they are children and cannot manage their own lives, their husbands\u2019 families dominate them.\u201d (Official IRNA news agency \u2013 September 4, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Girl marriage in Iran\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PRcknacSqIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Child marriage in Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presently,\nmore than 80 percent of the people of\u00a0Iran\u00a0live\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranfocus.com\/en\/blog\/32561-80-percent-of-iran-s-population-living-below-poverty-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under the poverty line<\/a>\u00a0and\nthe middle class has diminished altogether. The percentage of people living\nunder the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.radiofarda.com\/a\/iran-million-suffer-from-poverty\/29156808.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">absolute poverty line<\/a>\u00a0has\nincreased from 12 percent in 2017 to 50 percent and the poverty line stands at\n6.5 million tomans. This is while\u00a0Iran\u00a0sits on a sea of oil, is the\nworld\u2019s second largest source of natural gas, and has many natural resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sharifi Yazdi, one of the regime\u2019s experts, \u201cDepression among girls is twice as much as among boys all over the world, but studies show that the number of depressed girls in\u00a0Iran\u00a0is four times greater\u2026 Compared to boys, girls are under heavier psychological pressure. Also, from a social standpoint, their participation, relations and cooperation are lower compared to boys.\u201d (The state-run Salamatnews.com \u2013 July 15, 2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But what we should do now?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is necessary to remind, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president \u2013 elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/viewpoints\/women-rights-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"view on women\u2019s right issue (opens in a new tab)\">view on women\u2019s right issue<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fundamental freedoms and rights<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Women shall have the equal right to enjoy all<em>\u00a0human rights\u00a0<\/em>and fundamental freedoms;<br>\u2022 Irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, social class or demographics, women everywhere, in whatever village or city, must have the same rights as men in all economic, social and<em>\u00a0political\u00a0<\/em>spheres. Discrimination against women must be abolished in all its forms(2).<br>\u2022 Women are free to choose their place of residence, occupation, and education. They must have the opportunity to travel freely, have the right to freely choose their clothing and spouse, and have the right to leave the country, to obtain foreign citizenship, to devolve citizenship to their children, to divorce, and to obtain custody and guardianship over children(3).<br>\u2022 Belief in a specific faith or religion must not count as a factor to degrade any women or to prevent them from access to employment opportunities or educational and judicial resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian\u00a0women, however, have never remained silent over the\npast 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\njoined the struggle against the\u00a0mullahs\u2019\u00a0religious tyranny in step\nwith men. Today, they hold the leadership of the\nmain\u00a0opposition\u00a0force to the\u00a0mullahs\u2019\u00a0regime, the\nPeople\u2019s\u00a0Mojahedin\u00a0Organization of\u00a0Iran\u00a0(PMOI\/MEK). With\nsuch role models, we can see\u00a0Iranian\u00a0women in the streets,\nparticipating in most\u00a0protests\u00a0against the regime, speaking out for\ntheir rights, and paying the price for freedom to turn the page of history in\ntheir homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girl is said to be around 11. The man is reportedly twice her age. They were recently wed in a remote southwestern\u00a0Iranian\u00a0province with a video of the ceremony posted online. Everyone who heard this was shocked. 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