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Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists A draft law in Iraq that would allow the marriage of girls as young as nine has provoked protests across the country, with women’s rights activists saying it would “legalise child rape”. The Shia religious groups that dominate the political system in Iraq have been pushing to erode women’s rights in the country for more than a decade. Unlike neighbouring Saudi Arabia, Iraq does not have a system of male guar