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With ongoing war early marriage on the rise in Syria
5-3-2018
In its issue of today, Al Hayat newspaper shed light on the marriage of underage girls in Syria, citing a study published by the Syrian Center for Legal Researches & Studies on its website in August 2017. According to the survey, the rate of marriage of girl minors prior to the war was nearly 7%, but it began to rise with the increasing conflict to reach 15% in 2012, and to exceed 30% in 2015. Referring to statistics by the Syrian ministry of justice, Al Hayat mentioned that about 10% of the marriage contracts registered at Damascus religious courts in 2013 were arranged for underage girls, noting that the rate increased in remote areas, and that 60% of the unregistered marriages involved minor girls. On the subject, Al Hayat spoke to lawyer and activist, I’itidal Mohsen, who explained that Article 16 of the personal status law sets the appropriate age of marriage at 17 years for a girl and 18 years for a boy, but that it also allows a girl (13 years) and a boy (15 years) to wed if they are physically fit, had a genuine intention to build a family and the judge authorizes them to do so. In conclusion, Al Hayat wrote that the Syrian legislator’s view of women continues to be biased, notwithstanding the signing by the government in 2002 of the CEDAW agreement calling for eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. To recall, Syria voiced reservations on a number of provisions, including those which grant women equal rights on par with men in issues of marriage, divorce, guardianship, minimum age of marriage and the compulsory registration of marriages. (For more info, kindly visit the following link: https://goo.gl/MWwvru). (Al Hayat, March 5, 2018)
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