leave a forced marriage, and girls have been reportedly brought back to their parents after they
ran away.18
In 2016, the Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended that Iran “expeditiously
establish” a specific mechanism for monitoring children’s rights capable of receiving,
investigating and addressing complaints by children in a child-sensitive manner,19 which could
include complaints of forced marriage. As of February 2021, there is no readily available official
information that might indicate efforts to create such a mechanism to investigate and address
complaints of forced marriage.
As long as Iran’s domestic laws permit forced and child marriages, without a complete legal
prohibition and associated means of enforcement, those responsible for approving such
marriages, whether they be judges, parents, guardians, and religious or traditional leaders, will
not be held accountable for their actions.
Recommendation Status:
This recommendation has NOT been implemented.
18
Suuntaus Project, Finnish Immigration Service- Country Information Service, ‘Violence against women and honour-related
violence in Iran’, 26 June 2015, <http://www.migri.fi/download/61597_Suuntausraportti_VakivaltaIran_finalFINAL_kaannosversio_EN.pdf?96fa691925bfd288 >
19
CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4, para. 22 <https://undocs.org/en/CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 >
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