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In this episode of Unfinished Stories, Hevidar Ahmed travels around Iraq to explore the impact of a recently-passed amendment to the Personal Status Law that many fear will allow parents to marry off their children as young as nine-years-old.
Ahmed speaks with women who married young and their marriages subsequently failed. He also discusses the issue with relevant officials and clergymen.
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