Lawmakers in Iraq are proposing amendments to the country’s Personal Status Law that could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. Hokyoung Kim for NBC News Dec. 15, 2024, 5:00 AM EST ...

Iraq could allow marriage for girls as young as 9. A survivor says it will fuel rape and child abuse. Lawmakers in Iraq are proposing amendments to the country’s Personal Status Law that could ...

Iraq’s parliament is moving forward an amendment to the country’s Personal Status Law that would allow Iraqi religious authorities, rather than state law, to govern marriage and inheritance ...

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 ...

Iraq's parliament today passed several laws that critics say will effectively legalise child marriage for girls as young as nine.. The amendments to Iraq's personal status law will give Islamic ...

IRAQ has effectively legalised child marriage, with girls as young as nine being able to marry after amendments to decades old laws. The change on Tuesday has increased the interpretation of Islami… ...

Iraq poised to legalize marriage for girls as young as 9 April 10, 2014 More than 11 years ago A schoolgirl in front of a banner for the Jaafari Personal Status Law in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 14.

Iraq’s current Personal Status Law (Law 188 of 1959), which applies to all Iraqis regardless of sect, sets the legal age for marriage at 18, but allows for a judge to permit girls as young as 15 ...

In an interview published by First Things, the prominent Anglican bishop and theologian N.T. Wright sounds a caution about the wholesale and enthusiastic embrace of same-sex marriage. He says the ...

Changes to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as nine to get married. ... “I don’t want to call it marriage, because when a girl gets married at the age of 9 or 10, ...