Wedding fund scandals 10000 girls married under age to receive grant money
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Scandals following the Marriage Support Fund launched by Abdel Hamid Al – Dabiba, the head of the interim government, are not limited to stealing the fund’s money and distributing it to militia leaders, but have spread to cases of child marriages and the disclosure of the identities of the recipients of the grants, which some consider to be exposing the privacy of these families.
News channel 218 reported on marriage grant scandals confirming that about 1,000 girls were married under 18 years of age.
The Channel presented documents indicating that girls were between the ages of 13 and 17, i.e. below the legal age of marriage, and that they were considered as children under Libyan law, as the most recent amendment to the the age of majority that ends childhood at 18 years of age.
Libya was one of the first countries in the Arab region and North Africa to regulate the marriage of girls. Since the promulgation of Law 44 which was issued at the end of the monarchy, then came Law 10 of 1984, the period of the Jamahiriya,Then came Law 10 of 1984, the period of the Jamahiriya, which stipulated the completion of marriage eligibility at the age of 20, then Law 17 of 1992 was issued, which determined the age of marriage at 18 years, up to Law 14 of 2015 for the February period, which specified the same thing.
Jurists called on international child rights organizations to intervene immediately to prevent such marriages under the supervision of a Government 6.
The channel presented a document showing that the number of children who got married under the marriage fund reached 940 girls, if the documents state that 516 17 years old girls were born in 2004, in contravention of humanitarian and Libyan laws.
While the number of girls born in 2005 reached 279 girls aged 16 years, and those born in 2006 reached 118 girls aged 15 years, while the number of those born in 2007 reached 25 girls, and two girls who were born in 2008 got married.
Earlier, social media user circulated statements by officials in the Dabaiba government, pointing that only 5,000 checks were spent from the marriage grant, and no one knows where this money was spent, which prompted the Audit Bureau to form a committee to investigate the violations that marred the work of the fund.
