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These sick **** marry off little girls at age 9!RebelGator » Today, 9:30 am » wrote: ↑ You don't think it's strange that there is even a girl's school in a radical Islamic Country that treats women like property and restricts every basic right a civilized country affords?
You choose to believe the oppressors?
Premature death was probably a blessing for them.
Iran's Educational System and the Institutionalization of Gender Inequality - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs https://share.google/eEXM0ujuxCLcYU9hy
The Iranian state has no motivation to tackle discrimination against women. In fact, Iran has institutionalized sexism through laws and regulations that create intentional inequalities between men and women, all justified using Islam. These rules have given male perpetrators free reign to proudly take the law into their own hands as divine executioners. Although honor killings are extreme cases, they stem from fundamental inequalities and discrimination, which begin before birth, are institutionalized in the education system, and then supported by law. Iran must fulfill its international obligation to ensure education is available, accessible, acceptable, and adaptable to all children, which would naturally address discrimination and inequalities in the educational system.
Iran’s institutionalized sexism impacts a child’s life before they are even born. For the year 2021-2022, Iran’s judiciary set the rate of blood money (diyyeh) at 480 million tumans [~US$113,738]. This amount only applies if the fetus is a boy. If the fetus is a girl, the amount is halved. Blood money is based on Article 17 of the Islamic Penal Code and is a form of punitive and restorative justice. Article 448 defines it as a “punishment to compensate for physical harm inflicted on individuals.” In this case, this would mean anyone who intentionally batters or abuses a pregnant women and causes an abortion would have to pay blood money (Article 622). Women’s lives are, therefore, decided by the state to be worth half of a man’s even before birth.
Iran has one of the shortest compulsory education requirements in the world. Children are only obliged to attend school for five years. Even this short period of compulsory education is not entirely enforced by the state, particularly for girls. In instances when girls are married off or boys are forced into labor instead of attending school, the state fails to intervene. The difference is that girls are allowed by the state to be married as young as the age of nine, creating a legal path to deprive them of education.
According to a framework based on the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to which Iran is fully bound, education must be available, accessible, acceptable, and adaptable (4-A Right to Education Framework). Due to numerous discriminatory laws, Iran fails to fulfill its obligations in all four areas. For example, the age of maturity for girls is set at nine and for boys at fifteen. This violates Article 1 of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that sets the age of maturity for all children at eighteen years of age. Iran has entered reservations to this convention, and, by setting the ages of maturity at nine and fifteen, is undermining the need for children to stay in school. Children may be pulled out of school after Iran’s age of maturity based on financial incentives, boys mainly for labor and girls mainly for marriage. Kinship interests and old traditions are other reasons why girls are married off early. The state encourages this culture to push its own ideological interests, which is to marginalize women for the maintenance of a patriarchal society and governance model.