There are today more than 650 million women suffering the direct consequences of child marriage. Global instability - war and ...

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has addressed the UN Human Rights Council highlighting key women's rights issues during the council's session that reviewed the human rights situation in Iraq. Iraq ...

Hira Bibi, a 47-year-old rag picker and former child bride from a Bhubaneswar slum, has become a local hero by preventing six ...

A 45-year-old groom allegedly married a six-year-old girl in Afghanistan in a wedding that left even the Taliban “horrified”.

A number too enormous to count, is probably pretty accurate to describe the number of ‘child brides’ who are sold into marriage, all around the world, every single day. In fact, in the time it took ...

Legislation to restrict marriage for Missouri residents under age 18 had been stalled by Republican critics for years. The ...

Just a few decades ago, women in the Middle East had an average of seven children each. Now they're barely having enough ...

Iraq’s top court will resume work after nine judges returned following the retirement of its president. The Supreme Judicial ...

Iraq’s parliament has approved new legislation that would lower the minimum age of marriage below 18, a shift rights groups say will legalize “child rape” in Iraq. The new law gives ...

Child marriage has been a prevalent issue in Iraq. A 2023 U.N. survey found that between 2015 and 2021, 28 percent of girls were married before they turned 18.

IRAQ has effectively legalised child marriage, with girls as young as nine being able to marry after amendments to decades old laws. The change on Tuesday has increased the interpretation of ...