QUETTA (Dunya News) - The Balochistan Assembly on Friday passed the ‘Balochistan Child Marriage Prohibition Bill’ by a ...

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 city of ...

Timur Soykan reported on a court case into the alleged marriage in the İsmailağa sect, a politically influential religious community. The revelation of an alleged marriage of the daughter of a ...

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 city of ...

Iraqi lawmakers have passed amendments that give courts more authority in family matters, the Associated Press reported, and critics are concerned the move may spark a rise in child marriages.

Pakistan, July 26 -- Islam recognises the spiritual or divine rights of an unborn child, whose period starts before their parents' marriage and lasts up till their birth. Biological parents are ...

Despite being illegal under article 10 of the Personal Status Law (1959), which governs all family matters for Muslims in Iraq, marriages entered into outside of the Personal Status Court continue to ...

THE father of a 12-year-old child “bride” told her that Australian law was stupid and girls her age should be allowed to get married and have sex. The girl’s 63-year-old father, who cannot be named, ...