Sharia law, which influences much of Iraq’s legal system, permits child marriage under certain conditions, often tied to the ...
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 ...
Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit to invalidate the passing of three bills wrapped into one package ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court suspended implementation ... Earlier versions of the measure were seen as potentially opening the door to child marriage since some interpretations of Islamic law allow ...
Next time you read terms like Islamic Radicalization or Islamic Extremism or Islamic Terrorism just tell yourself that it’s a ...
Iraq’s top court on Tuesday threw out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last ...
Iraq’s top court on Tuesday threw out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court on ... to the country’s personal status law to give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance ...
German theologian and journalist Matthias Kopp — spokesman for the German Bishops’ Conference and a consultant to the Vatican Dicastery for Communication — was in Iraq this past week to ...