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Today's Video Focus: The facts are shocking - young girls, some as young as nine - forced
into marriage - in a country which should give women equal rights in
everything from education to marriage and divorce.
After decades of war, extreme poverty and violence in Iraq - the number
of children forced into early marriage has risen sharply. And successive
Iraqi governments have tried to scrap the laws guaranteeing women their
rights - provoking outrage with one attempt to lower the legal marriage
age to nine. So how is all this affecting women in Baghdad?
Focus of the Day article:
The Parole Board has announced the appointments of a record number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidates.
Full story - New Law Journal
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