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

Unregistered marriages are already a loophole enabling child marriage in Iraq, where child marriage rates have been rising over the last 20 years, a March 2024 report by Human Rights Watch found.

Lawmakers in Iraq are proposing amendments to the country’s Personal Status Law that could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with mass ...

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.

Protesters in Baghdad's Tahrir Square demonstrating against a proposed law that critics said would legalize child marriage in Iraq on August 8, 2024.

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.

IRBIL, Iraq — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi ...

Iraq Iraq law could lower a girl’s age of consent as an adult from 18 to 9: it ‘legalizes child rape’ The proposed law would also give religious authorities to carry out marriages of the ...

Girls as young as nine could enter marriages under new measures being proposed in Iraq that could also see divorce protections for women revoked, human rights campaigners have warned.. Amnesty ...

Why It Matters. Opponents to the amendments say they effectively legalize child marriage in Iraq and mark a significant step backward for women's rights in the country.

Changes to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as nine to get married. Iraq could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. A survivor says it will fuel rape and child abuse.