Pakistan’s top Islamic body on Tuesday (May 27) rejected a bill that seeks to criminalize child marriages in Islamabad, describing it as “un-Islamic.” The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) also ...

I have read in the newspapers that we now have a law which prohibits child marriages. Is the law applicable to child marriages solemnized under the Islamic law? Ali Dear Ali, Yes, the law prohibiting ...

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage. The amendments give Islamic ...

Tawi, where one in six girls in the Philippines marries before 18, according to a Unicef CEFMU report. Despite the ...

EFFORTS to stop child marriage in the Bangsamoro region should move beyond information campaigns and awareness drives, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said, urging the use of culturally ...

Indonesian authorities are investigating an Islamic wedding planning service for promoting the marriage of girls as young as 12 years old, despite laws that forbid child marriage.

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 ...

Police say an imam has pleaded guilty to illegally allowing two children to marry each other at a mosque. Ashraf Osmani, 52, ...