Current issues in Malaysia
The current issues in Malaysia is about children’s rights. Malaysia continues to permit child marriage under both civil and Islamic law. Girls age 16 and 17 can marry without permission of their state’s chief minister. For Muslim, most state Islamic laws set a minimum age of 16 for girls and 18 for boys , violating of Malaysia’s obligations under international human rights law, but also permit marriages below those ages , with no apparent minimum, with the permission of a Sharia court. In March , the minister of women, family and community development stated in parliament that the government did not intend to ban child marriage .
