{"id":15148,"date":"2017-11-14T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/14\/catastrophic-iraq-law-could-legalise-marriage-for-children-as-young-as-nine\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:47:14","slug":"catastrophic-iraq-law-could-legalise-marriage-for-children-as-young-as-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=15148","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Catastrophic\u2019 Iraq law could legalise marriage for children as young as nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists warn that proposal to amend legislation would set women\u2019s rights back 50 years, allowing Muslim clerics to decide on marriage contractsA new law that could legalise marriage for children as young as nine in Iraq would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d, setting back women\u2019s rights by half a century, activists said.The proposal, an amendment to Iraq\u2019s personal status law, would allow clerics of Muslim sects to govern marriage contracts. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/nov\/14\/catastrophic-iraq-law-could-legalise-marriage-for-children-as-young-as-nine\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Catastrophic\u2019 Iraq law could legalise marriage for children as young as nine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists warn that proposal to amend legislation would set women\u2019s rights back 50 years, allowing Muslim clerics to decide on marriage contractsA new law that could legalise marriage for children as young as nine in Iraq would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d, setting back women\u2019s rights by half a century, activists said.The proposal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}