Fatemeh Daneshvar, head of the Social Committee in Tehran’s so-called city council shed light on the dire conditions of homeless women and girls sleeping in the streets of Iran.
“In 2008 there were a very small number of women sleeping in the streets. However, little by little their numbers grew and if the law doesn’t see to this, we will face children born from these women – who are mainly in their pregnancy age – and the situation will be very dire,” she said in a report.
Ill and addicted women giving birth have their children sold, she said.
“All officials must face this unwanted phenomenon, and not deny it; because in the future this issue will engulf the entire society,” Daneshvar added.
“The law has not forbidden child marriages at all, saying such marriages are conditioned on the father accepting the terms. Even the offices that register such marriages go unpunished,” head of Tehran’s Social Committee said.
On the conditions of a young girl by the name of Ra’na who was recently acid attacked by her father in the city of Kerman she said, “The mother of this child lost her life in hospital.” (State-run asriran.com website – October 11, 2015)
