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Karim Kadim — The associaTed Press Women pass by a banner for the Jaafari Personal status Law in Baghdad, iraq, on Thursday. The contentious civil status dra law that allows child marriage has stirred up a row among many iraqis. By Sameer N. Yacoub The Associated Press BAGHDAD » A contentious draft law being considered in Iraq could open the door to girls as young as nine getting married and would require wives to submit to sex on their husband's whim, pro - voking outrage from rights activists and many Iraqis who see it as a step back- ward for women's rights. The measure, aimed at creating different laws for Iraq's majority Shiite pop - ulation, could further fray the country's divisions amid some of the worst bloodshed since the sectarian fighting that nearly ripped the coun - try apart after the U.S.-led in- vasion. It also comes as more and more children under 18 get married in the country. "That law represents a crime against humanity and childhood," prominent Iraqi human rights activist Hana Adwar told The Associated Press. "Married underage girls are subjected to phys - ical and psychological suf- fering. Iraqi law now sets the le- gal age for marriage at 18 without parental approval. Girls as young as 15 can be married only with a guard - ian's approval. The proposed new mea- sure, known as the Jaaf- ari Personal Status Law, is based on the principles of a Shiite school of religious law founded by Jaafar al-Sadiq, the sixth Shiite imam. Iraq's Justice Ministry late last year introduced the draft measure to the Cabinet, which approved it last month despite strong opposition by rights groups and activists. The draft law does not set a minimum age for mar - riage. Instead, it mentions an age in a section on di- vorce, setting rules for di- vorces of girls who have reached the age of 9 years in the lunar Islamic calendar. It also says that's the age girls reach puberty. Since the Islamic calendar year is 10 or 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar, that would be the equivalent of 8 years and 8 months old. The bill makes the father the only parent with the right to accept or refuse the mar - riage proposal. Critics of the bill believe that its authors slipped the age into the divorce section as a backhanded way to al - low marriages of girls that young. Already, government statistics show that nearly 25 percent of marriages in Iraq involved someone un - der the age of 18 in 2011, up from 21 percent in 2001 and 15 percent in 1997. Planning Ministry spokesman Ab - dul-Zahra Hendawi said the practice of underage mar- riage is particularly preva- lent in rural areas and some provinces where illiteracy is high. Also under the proposed measure, a husband can have sex with his wife re - gardless of her consent. The bill also prevents women from leaving the house with- out their husband's permis- sion, would restrict wom- en's rights in matters of pa- rental custody after divorce and make it easier for men to take multiple wives. Parliament must still rat - ify the bill before it becomes law. That is unlikely to hap- pen before parliamentary elections scheduled for April 30, though the Cabinet sup- port suggests it remains a priority for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's adminis- tration. Al-Maliki is widely expected to seek a third term. Iraqi child-marriage legislation criticized miDDle eASt By Diaa Hadid The Associated Press K A B e l i A S , l e B A NoN » Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her new - born baby progressively shrink. Her daughter's dark eyes seemed to grow big- ger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat es- caped to neighboring Leba- non, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. The news devastated her. "They had to hold me when they told me. I wept," the 31-year-old mother said, speaking in the rickety, in - formal tent camp where she now lives with her husband in the eastern Lebanese town of Kab Elias. Her daughter Shurouk has been undergoing treatment the past three months and remains a wispy thing. The 9-month-old weighs 7 pounds — though she's become more smiley and gregarious. Mer - vat spoke on condition she be identified only by her first name, fearing problems for her family in Syria. Her case underscored how dramatically Syrian society has unraveled from a conflict that this weekend enters its fourth year. Such stark starvation was once rare in Syria, where Pres - ident Bashar Assad's auto- cratic state ran a health sys- tem that provided nearly free care. That system, along with most other state institu - tions, has been shattered in many parts of the country where the fighting between Assad's forces and the reb - els trying to overthrow him is raging hardest. The war has killed more than 140,000 people and has driven nearly a third of the population of 23 million from their homes — including 4.2 million who remain inside Syria and 2.5 million who have fled into neighboring countries. Nearly half those displaced are children. Now aid workers believe starvation cases are in - creasing in besieged areas of Syria and malnutrition is spreading among the poor- est Syrian refugees. Before the conflict, doc- tors inside Syria would see fewer than one case a month of a child with life-threaten- ing malnutrition, now they tell UNICEF they encounter 10 or more a week, said Ju- liette Touma, a Middle East regional spokesperson for the U.N. children's agency. In Lebanon, malnutri - tion grew from 4.4 per- cent in 2012 to 5.9 percent of Syrian refugee children, according to a recent UNI- CEF-led survey. In all, an es- timated 10,000 Syrian chil- dren in Lebanon are likely suffering malnutrition, said Dima Ousta of the Interna- tional Orthodox Christian Charities, an NGO leading efforts to deal with the issue in Lebanon. UNICEF said nearly 2,000 were at risk of dying because of acute mal - nutrition if they weren't im- mediately treated. A survey in Jordan found that 4 percent of Syrian ref- ugee children under five needed treatment for mod- erate or acute malnutrition, the World Food Programme said on Monday. Touma said UNICEF had not yet finished surveys for refugees in Turkey or inside Syria itself. Malnutrition is the prod - uct of a series of ever-wid- ening and interconnected problems. Within Syria, fighting in the worst hit areas can limit access to food supplies and health care for children. There and among refugees, children are vulnerable to diarrhea and other illnesses from drinking dirty water or being exposed to sewage. Those conditions can exac - erbate malnutrition and, in turn, malnourished children are less resistant to disease. SYriA civil wAr Malnutrition grows among refugee children BiLaL hussein — The associaTed Press syrian refugee mohammed sammor, 3, receives vaccination against polio from dr. mohammed anboushi on march 11 at a medical clinic in the town of Kab elias in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. By lori Hinnant The Associated Press PAriS » Air pollution that has turned the skies over Paris a murky yellow and shrouded much of Belgium for days forced drivers to slow down Friday and gave millions a free ride on pub - lic transportation. T h e b e l t o f s m o g stretched for hundreds of miles, from France's At - lantic coast to Belgium and well into Germany. It was the worst air pollution France has seen since 2007, the European Environment Agency said. Nearly all of France was under some sort of pollution alert on Friday, with levels in t he P ari si an r eg io n su r - passing some of those in the world's most notoriously polluted cities, including Beijing and Delhi. To combat the smog, pub - lic transit around Paris and in two other cities was free Friday through Sunday. Elsewhere in France and in Belgium's southern Wallo - nia area, the free ride was only for Friday. The smog is par ticu- larly severe here because France has an unusually high number of diesel ve- hicles, whose nitrogen ox- ide fumes mix with ammo- nia from springtime fer- tilizers and form noxious particulate ammonium ni- trate. Pollutants from the burning of dead leaves and wood contribute to the smog problem as well. One environmental group complained earlier this week, denouncing the "in - ertia of the government," saying it was putting lives in danger. 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Bond not be re- quired for the reasons stated in item 3d (administrator). Decendent died 1/23/2014, in Red Bluff, California, a resident of the county named above. A hearing will be held in this court as follows: April 14, 2014, at 1:30 pm, Dept. 1, located at 633 Washington St., P.O. Box 310, Red Bluff, CA 96080 Attorney In Pro Per: Cathy Argullin Sheri Mowatt 3720 Churn Creek Rd., Apt 13B Redding, CA 96002 Publish: March 15, 22, 29, 2014 LEGAL NOTICE TSG No.: 7137264 TS No.: CA1200247031 FHA/VA/PMI No.: APN: 041151061 Property Ad- dress: 260 KAREL AVE RED BLUFF, CA 96080 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DE- FAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 07/21/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 04/07/2014 at 02:00 P.M., First American Title Insurance Com- pany, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 07/28/2005, as In- strument No. 017051, in book 2759 , page 185, , of Official Re- cords in the office of the County Recorder of TEHAMA County, State of California. Executed by: RAYMOND P. SAVERCOOL AND JOY E. SAVERCOOL, HUSBAND AND WIFE, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER'S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment author- ized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) At the main entrance to the Tehama County Courthouse at 633 Washington Street, Red Bluff, CA. All right, title and interest con- veyed to and now held by it un- der said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 041151061 The street address and other com- mon designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 260 KAREL AVE, RED BLUFF, CA 96080 he under- signed Trustee disclaims any li- ability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the re- maining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advan- ces, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publica- tion of the Notice of Sale is $240,695.66. The beneficiary un- der said Deed of Trust has de- posited all documents evidenc- ing the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust and has de- clared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be record- d i h h h l ed in the County where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should under- stand that there are risks in- volved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not auto- matically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auc- tion, you are or may be respon- sible for paying off all liens se- nior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are en- couraged to investigate the ex- istence, priority, and size of out- standing liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a ti- tle insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be post- poned one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that in- formation about trustee sale postponements be made availa- bl d h bli p p ble to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916)939-0772 or visit this Internet Web http://search. nationwideposting.com/propert ySearchTerms.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case CA1200247031 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that oc cur close in time to the sched- uled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone in- formation or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason the Purchaser at the sale shal be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Date: First American Title Insurance Company 6 CAM- PUS CIRCLE WESTLAKE, TX 76262 First American Title Insur- ance Company MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AT- TEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PUR- POSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE IN FORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)939-0772 NPP0228047 To DAILY NEWS (RED BLUFF) Publish: 03/15/2014, 03/22/2014 03/29/2014 Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices | CLASSIFIEDS | redBLuFFdaiLYneWs.com saTurdaY, march 15, 2014 8 B