Lawmakers have withdrawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties on those who arrange child marriages after it was scuttled by a religious body who branded it “blasphemous” and against Islam, sources ...

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 ...

Child marriages are surging in Gaza as families grappling with war and poverty push underage daughters into wedlock. Over a brief monitoring period, Gaza’s emergency courts processed more than 400 ...

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 ...

JAKARTA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - 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 ...

When Punjab’s assembly raised the minimum marriage age to 18 on Monday, it finally parted ways with a century of complacency. The Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2026 closes the gender gap in the 1929 ...

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 ...