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 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 ...

Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit to invalidate the passing of three bills wrapped into one package ...

The measures in question include a general amnesty law, new personal status legislation, and a law on the restitution of ...

Iraq’s top court has suspended implementation of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court suspended implementation ... Earlier versions of the text were seen as potentially opening the door to child marriage since some interpretations of Islamic law allow ...

A former military bride from San Diego came to Concord Tuesday to urge t Legislature to reject a proposal to allow 17-year-olds to marry if one member of the couple is active-duty military. The bill ...

The ‘Personal Status Law’ approved ... the social fabric of Iraq. Other elements are even more controversial, because they include provisions that would allow the marriage of children from ...

The proposed amendments would let people choose between religious or state regulations for family matters, such as marriage, inheritance, divorce and child custody ... The draft law has already ...