Reiterating its stand against the child marriage, the Assam government has recently disqualified and removed four ward members from their concerned panchayats for their involvement in child marriage.

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

AN Area Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the Islamic marriage between one Mujidat Abdullahi and Muyideen ...

Legal expert Waiza Rafique of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) has called for the nationwide enforcement ...

In 2021, the Biden administration cut and ran in Afghanistan, leaving the country to the Taliban overlords we'd ostensibly ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Horrified by the prospect of being forced into marriage with a 41-year-old man, a 13-year-old ...

The Supreme Court recently ruled that it was unconstitutional for a child to be denied inheritance for the mere fact of having been born outside marriage.

"The Constitution provides the freedom of worship. Muslims have a way on how to deal with matters such as inheritance, ...

In a significant development, a court in Pakistan refused to hand custody of a Catholic girl to a Muslim who abducted and forcibly converted/married her, noting that as a minor she could not go with ...

Islamic law dictates that where a child has been born out of a marriage, he or she can only inherit from the mother and not ...

Fewer couples tied the knot in 2024, with a more than 10 per cent drop from the record-high number of marriages registered in ...

There were 26,328 marriages in 2024, down from 28,310 in 2023 and 29,389 in 2022. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.