07 December 2020 :
Child marriages in Iran – 7,323 girls under-14 got married in 3 months.
According to the quarterly report of the National Statics Center of Iran (NSC), more than 7,000 girls under 14 years of age have got married in Iran from April to June 2020. The number published by the NCS on the number of young women married between 10 and 14 years of age was exactly 7323. During the same period, the marriage of one girl under 10 years has also been registered. (The NCS report – November 30, 2020)
The NSC also announced that some 130,000 marriages of children under 14 years of age had been registered between 2016 to 2019. This amounts to 43,300 under-14 marriages per year. (The figure is not clear, in reality the figure of 130,000 should be divided by 4 years, and the average would be 32,500, more in line with the 7,300 of the last quarter, Ed.).
