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Women's organizations condemn case of child marriage in Shuf
16-9-2019
After the ISF General Directorate circulated the news of Yana Shamseddine, who went missing on September 7, it was found that the girl, 15, eloped with a young man, 18, (family name Yahya) and wed a few days later in the Shuf area, L’Orient Le Jour reported on September 14. What happened, the newspaper wrote, was only a cover up, as the father of the girl who did not approve the marriage sent his brother to sign the contract. Noting that the underage bride’s signature was not recognized by the Druze personal status doctrines which set the minimum age for marriage at 15 for girls and 16 for boys. The above incident set off wide dissent on social media platforms led by the PSP Women Union in coordination with the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering. The age of the girl, they challenged, does not entitle her to make a life decision like marriage. They asked the spiritual institutions to change their regulations and set a minimum age at 18 for both males and females, pending the establishment of the sought-for civil state. On the subject, the spiritual judge, Sheikh Yussef Makarem, stressed the need to amend the personal status laws in the Druze community to this effect, pointing out that some of these laws are unfair to women, especially those related to children’s custody and inheritance. (L’Orient Le Jour, September 14, 2019)
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