Dr Bayan Nouri Tawfeeq Nadir (born 11 January 1960, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq[1]) is a Kurdish Iraqi politician who was Minister of Women's Affairs from 18 October 2014 to 16 August 2015.
She opposed the draft personal status law, which allows marriage for girls from nine years old.
[6] She said she would aim to "restrict" polygamy, not going so far as to ban it due to concerns over the impact on divorced women.
She says she is against religious marriages which aren't ratified by courts, as this causes legal problems for divorcees and their children.
[7] In May 2015, she blamed the turmoil caused by the Islamic state to be responsible for the surge of widows in Iraq.