On Monday, October 16, 2023, the Policy and Legislation Department of the Center for Women’s Studies organized a discussion session entitled “The Iraqi Legislative Position on Minors Traveling with the Custodial Mother”. Researchers Iman Hamza Hussein and Kamal Sami Kamel discussed various aspects of the debate, including family disputes and their impact on children, Article 57 of the Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959, emphasizing that the mother has the right of custody in the first degree of priority under legal and compulsory guardianship, and issues related to the withholding of documents from the mother. They also addressed the mother’s migration with the child, hiding the child from the father and depriving the father of his children, affecting the r…
