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NETHERLANDS: ALARM OVER IMPORTATION OF CHILD BRIDES FROM SYRIA…….

Child brides 9.6.2011

Migrant crisis: Dutch alarm over child brides from Syria

  • 20 October 2015
A Syrian child bride (file pic)
Image captionChild marriage is outlawed by several international agreements

A 14-year-old girl has gone missing from a Dutch asylum centre. Police say Fatema Alkasem was nine months pregnant and may be in need of medical care.

She is also thought to be a “child bride”, and her case has highlighted the problem that the Netherlands faces in providing asylum for girls who married in Syria but are below the Dutch age of consent.

The government in The Hague is rushing to close a loophole in the asylum law which has so far allowed child brides to be reunited with their husbands in the Netherlands.

The practice has inflamed debate about how the Netherlands is responding to the refugee crisis, with some arguing it is condoning paedophilia.

‘Foster care’

As many as 20 girls between the ages of 13 and 15 have been given legal permission to join their older partners at Dutch asylum centres, according to regional news channel RTV-Noord. The figures were reportedly obtained from a leaked immigration service document.

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