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    Country: Bahrain Committee: United Nations Children's Fund Delegate: Aditya Gunawan Putra Topic: Putting An End To Child Marriage and Teen Pregnancy

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    This document discusses child marriage and teen pregnancy in Bahrain. It notes that under Bahraini law, the minimum age of marriage is 16 for girls, though some are married before 16 with court permission. While Bahrain has committed to eliminating child marriage by 2030 and progress has been made, the document calls for continued efforts like educating the public, eliminating cultural practices that force early marriage, supporting actions to end child marriage, and developing policies that protect children's rights.

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    This document discusses child marriage and teen pregnancy in Bahrain. It notes that under Bahraini law, the minimum age of marriage is 16 for girls, though some are married before 16 with court permission. While Bahrain has committed to eliminating child marriage by 2030 and progress has been made, the document calls for continued efforts like educating the public, eliminating cultural practices that force early marriage, supporting actions to end child marriage, and developing policies that protect children's rights.

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    Country : Bahrain

    Committee : United Nations Children's Fund


    Delegate : Aditya Gunawan Putra
    Topic : Putting an end to Child marriage and teen
    pregnancy
    Child marriage and teen pregnancy is a problem that’s occurring in a lot of countries. It
    creates negative implications for education, socioeconomic status, and health, among many
    other factors. It could also hinders global sustainable development. In short, it’s against
    children’s rights, therefore it’s essential to fix this problem. There are approximately 700
    million women in the world that were married as a child, and the only way to reduce that
    number is by eliminating all the factors that generates child marriage and teen pregnancy
    (e.g., gender inequality, poverty, failure to enforce laws, negative traditionals or religious
    practices, conflicts, disaster, emergency).
    Bahraini uses Islamic law (Shari’a) as their laws. But the laws separated Sunni and Shitee for
    personal status issues. In 2009, Bahrain adopted the country’s first personal status law that
    regulates matters such as marriage, divorce, child custody and inheretence. But the status
    law only applies to Sunni muslims, which mean more than half of the population i.e., the
    Shiites, have no codified status law. It creates a huge problem as the Shitee would
    experience an arbitrary processes in a Sharia’s court. It correlates with our topic as it’s
    against the way to reduce children marriage and teen pregnancy, that is, eliminating failure
    enforce laws. As it could lead to families that are not recognizing problems that causes by
    forcing its child to marry. The legal of marriage in Bahrain is 16 years old for girls, and they
    could also be married off before they turn 16 years old with the permission of the Shiria
    Court. It raises many cons as the normal minimum age for marriage is supposed to be 18
    years old.
    There has been a lot of actions taken to fix this issue, such as the Child Rights Committee
    that urged Bahrain to raise the minimum age of marriage to 18, the CEDAW committee that
    reiterated recommendations for government to raise the minimum age of marriage to 18.
    But dispite all of that, Bahrain has committed to eliminate child marriage by 2030. The
    goverment also reported that progress has been made to eliminate child marriage.
    SOLUTIONS :
    - Urges goverment to give education to Bahraini about the harms of child marriage
    and teen pregnancy.
    - Eliminate cultures that force children to be married under 18.
    - Supporting actions that's related to eliminating child marriage. (e.g., the Bahrain
    commitment to eliminate child marriage by 2030).
    - Calls upon goverment to assess the impacts on child marriage and teen pregnancy.
    - Encourages government to make policies that will support children’s rights.
    REFERENCES :
    - Bahrain – Child Marriages Around The World. Girls Not Brides
    https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/child-marriage/bahrain/
    - Bahrain - UNICEF
    https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Bahrain-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf
    Country : Bahrain
    Committee : United Nations Children's Fund
    Delegate : Aditya Gunawan Putra
    Topic : Putting an end to Child marriage and teen
    pregnancy
    - STUDYGUIDE_UNICEF
    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/131JSHyRWReh7ze_3u0ds-YiXcoLozc9v
    - WIKIPEDIA Women’s Rights in Bahrain
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Bahrain

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