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“#Outcry in Somalia as new bill would allow child marriage<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 12, 2020 |<\/span> 10:46pm <\/p>\n

\n JOHANNESBURG\u00a0 \u2014 An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl\u2019s sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage as long as the family gives their consent.<\/p>\n

The bill is a dramatic reworking of years of efforts by civil society to bring forward a proposed law to give more protections to women and girls in one of the world\u2019s most conservative countries.<\/p>\n

The new Sexual Intercourse Related Crimes Bill \u201cwould represent a major setback in the fight against sexual violence in Somalia and across the globe\u201d and should be withdrawn immedia<\/a>tely, the United Nations special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The bill also weakens protections for victims of sexual violence, she said.<\/p>\n

Already more than 45% of young women in Somalia were married or \u201cin union\u201d before age 18, according to a United Nations analysis in 2014-15.<\/p>\n

Somalia in 2013 agreed with the U.N. to improve its sexual violence laws, and after five years of work a sexual offenses bill was app<\/a>roved by the Council of Ministers and sent to parliament. But last year the speaker of the House of the People sent the bill back \u201cin a process that may have deviated from established law\u201d asking for \u201csubstantive amendments,\u201d the U.N. special representative said.<\/p>\n

The new bill \u201crisks legitimizing child marriage, among other alarming practices, and must be prevented from passing into law,\u201d U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said this week, warning that its passage would \u201csend a worrying signal to other states in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thousands of people in Somalia are circulating a petition against the bill, including Ilwad Elman with the Mogadishu-based Elman Peace center.<\/p>\n

As Somalia prepared to mark International Youth Day on Wednesday, Elman tweeted this week: \u201cI don\u2019t wanna see any Somali officials participating online to celebrate \u2026 when you\u2019re trying to steal their childhood away from them RIGHT NOW with the intercourse bill legalizing child marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Somalia\u2019s presidency and health ministry had no immediate comment Wednesday. It was not clear when the bill would be put up for a vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure it goes in line with Islamic law and traditions,\u201d the deputy parliament speaker, Abdweli Mudey, said after the new bill emerged.<\/p>\n

The U.N. mission to Somalia in a separate statement has called the new bill \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d and urged parliament to re-introduce the original one. That original bill \u201cwill be vital in preventing and criminalizing all sexual offenses,\u201d the Somalia representative for the U.N. Population Fund, Anders Thomsen, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig moment for MPs to decide Somalia\u2019s future values,\u201d the British ambassador to Somalia, Ben Fender, has tweeted.<\/p>\n

The contentious new bill comes as women\u2019s rights groups openly worry that the coronavirus pandemic and related travel<\/a> restrictions in Somalia have worsened violence against women and female genital mutilation. Nearly all Somali women and girls have been subjected to that practice.<\/p>\n

Some 68% of more than 300 service providers across the country have reported an increase in gender-based violence, including rape, since the pandemic began, UNFPA said in a report last month.<\/p>\n

Nearly a third of respondents, including more than 750 community members, said they believed child marriages had increased in part because of economic pressures and in part because schools have been disrupted.<\/p>\n

And in some cases, health facilities have closed, limiting access to care.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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