Efforts to end child marriage in Iraq are facing a serious threat, with the Iraqi Council of Representatives’ approval of amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law raising grave concerns that it risks ...

Alabama currently allows minors at or over the age of 14 to receive medical services without a parent or guardian’s consent. Lawmaker working to keep Alabama rural hospitals open House Bill 2 ...

Many people date partners roughly their age, but some people have quite large age gaps in their relationships. However, there has not been a lot of systematic psychological research to find out ...

Iraq passes shocking amendments allowing child marriage from age nine, sparking international human rights ... The law allows unregistered marriages to be formalised with a guardian's consent, a ...

Roughly three months after Iraqi lawmakers proposed a bill to slash the country’s legal age of consent from 18 to nine years old, Iraq’s parliament passed an amendment to the country’s personal status ...

Iraq witnessed a massive uproar after news broke ... But a revised version reinstated clauses of the old law that set the age of marriage at 18 -- or 15 with the consent of legal guardians and a judge ...

The Federal Government of Iraq aims to unify the country under its control by ending Kurdistan's independence and controlling all oil and gas production and revenue. The ongoing oil embargo and ...

Newsweek contacted Iraq's Ministry of Foreign ... girls to marry before that age, with 52 countries permitting marriage under 15 years old with parental consent. Noor Nafea Ali, a member of ...

The amendments to Iraq's personal status law will allow girls in their teens - or as young as nine- to be married, ignoring the country's previous minimum age of 18. The age goes as low as nine ...

Activists argue that this undermines Iraq's 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women. Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in ...