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Skip Navigation LinksIraq: Country Reservations

Convention on the Rights of the Child


Article 14, paragraph 1

The Government of Iraq has seen fit to accept [the Convention] ... subject to a reservation in respect to article 14, paragraph 1, concerning the child's freedom of religion, as allowing a child to change his or her religion runs counter to the provisions of the Islamic Shariah.

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