Women's rights groups outraged after Somalia passes bill that would allow forced child marriages as long as families give consent
Somalia in 2013 agreed with the UN to improve its sexual violence laws, and after five years of work a sexual offenses bill was approved by the Council of Ministers and sent to parliament. But last year the speaker of the House of the People sent the bill back “in a process that may have deviated from established law” asking for “substantive amendments”, the UN special representative said.
Thousands of people in Somalia are circulating a petition against the bill, including Ilwad Elman with the Mogadishu-based Elman Peace center. Somalia's presidency and health ministry had no immediate comment on Wednesday. It was not clear when the bill would be put up for a vote. “Big moment for MPs to decide Somalia’s future values,” the British ambassador to Somalia, Ben Fender, has tweeted.
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