Egypt: NCW Rejects Marriage of Nine-Year-Old Girls

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Photo: Daniel Finnan/RFI

Protesters in front of the Constitutional Court (file photo).

The National Council for Women (NCW) has expressed its profound dismay at statements made by some members of the Constituent Assembly in charge of writing Egypt’s new constitution on the possibility of sanctioning marriage of sexually mature girls even if they were at the age of nine.

The NCW described such viewpoint as a setback to child rights and is only expressive of outdated traditions still prevailing in the Egyptian society.

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4 Replies to “Egypt: NCW Rejects Marriage of Nine-Year-Old Girls”

  1. Sexual abuse of a prisonner ( in Tunisia ? ) – I was looking for something else and this popped out in the search results :

  2. Good for them, now if they can gain enough power to stop the MB from making such marriages legal.

  3. I think most of the world is lost. The only hope is for countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China, Japan, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Mexico, Pacific Islands, Korea and most of South America who have sufficiently low muslim populations as to be able to halt their growth. The rest are screwed I reckon. The Yanks could possibly save themselves if they toss out Obama and the Ruskies if they rise up against Putin.

    Otherwise it’s already too late for most. Game over.

  4. Forget it. This organisation is finished. The MB will bring in more and more shari’ah law in stages, just like Mohammed did, and just like syeed qtub said in his book ‘milestones’, the contemporary blueprint for the MB’s strategy. I give it ten years for full shari’ah law to be instigated. Al Qaradawi, the MB’s chief jurist, himself said “we will not have the chopping off of hands for at least five years, the people need to get used to change”.