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The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has strongly condemned a new decree issued by the Taliban in Afghanistan. This new law includes a provision to legalize child marriage and consider a girl’s silence as consent for marriage. The committee has described this as a serious and systematic violation of international human rights law.
The committee said, ‘Marriage under the age of 18 is considered child marriage, which is a harmful practice and a form of forced marriage, as children do not have the capacity to give full, free and informed consent to marriage.’ This reaction has come on the law issued by the Taliban on May 14, in which marriage of girls after puberty has been considered valid and the girl’s silence has been accepted as consent to marriage.
The committee clarified that puberty cannot be considered a basis for adulthood or legal capacity for marriage. He said that this provision is completely contrary to the United Nations Child Rights Convention. The committee further said, ‘Child marriage is not only a harmful practice, but it is a violation of basic human rights. This puts girls at serious risk of violence, exploitation, early pregnancy, disruption in education and mental and physical harm.’
The committee, comprising 18 independent child rights experts, warned that any legal regime that normalises or legalises child marriage violates children’s rights and robs them of their dignity, freedom and future opportunities.
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Experts expressed concern that this law is part of broader discriminatory policies being adopted by the Taliban, which also includes banning girls’ secondary and higher education. He said that these policies have deprived millions of Afghan girls of their fundamental rights, limiting their economic and social participation and increasing poverty and inequality in the country.
The committee has appealed to the Taliban administration to immediately withdraw all such laws that violate the rights of children. At the same time, they sought to restore girls’ rights to education, protection, equality and full participation in society, in line with Afghanistan’s responsibilities under international human rights law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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