A number of stakeholders are unhappy at the plans by Somalia to reduce the age of maturity to 15.
For decades, the age of maturity in the East African nation has been 18. However, this could change if the federal parliament has its way.
This is among the issues that parliamentarians were to debate on Saturday.
Among the amendments that parliamentarians sought to endorse was the age of maturity. They postponed it to a later date together with other issues.
Laetitia Bader, the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Watch for Africa, voiced concerns over these plans.
Bader called upon parliamentarians to protect the rights of women and children.
According to Bader, the reduction of the age of maturity would present a new challenge to young girls who would now be forced into early marriage.
Currently, Somalia struggles with early marriage a lot.