Baku, Azerbaijan, June 14
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
At least 17 percent of women who marry in Iran's capital city of Tehran are less than 18 years of age, Soraya Azizpanah, head of the Association for the Defense of Children's Rights, said.
She said that increasing number of underage females' marriage is a "social alarm," ILNA news agency reported June 14.
Azizpanah said that in Iran, the legal marriage age for girls is 13 years, adding the Iranian society would be facing damages caused by this phenomenon.
The latest statistics released by Iran's National Organization for Civil Registration indicates that over marriage of 20-24 year old males with 15-19 year old females share 16 percent of overall marriages in Iran.
In August 2015, the Shahrvand newspaper published a report that put the number of registered underage marriages at more than 40,000 in 2014 alone.
About 419,488 girls under the age of 15 and 484,885 boys under the age of 20 got married between 2004 and 2014 in Iran, Shahrvand reported citing National Organization for Civil Registration
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