Even though the legal age for marriage was 18 in Iraq, the Girls Not Brides organization noted that individuals were able to marry at age 15 with judicial approval and a 2023 UN survey found that ...

Rights groups and many Iraqi women fear the country's parliament will open the door to child marriages as lawmakers consider legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over ...

Hadi Mizban/Associated Press Why It Matters Opponents to the amendments say they effectively legalize child marriage in Iraq and mark a significant step backward for women's rights in the country.

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.

Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases. The changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law, which some interpret ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the world.

Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases, but the changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law.

A proposed amendment to Iraq's family legislation could "hand more power in family matters to clerics" and, alarmingly, "open the door for marriage to be legalised for children as young as nine ...

In early August 2024, thousands of women and women’s rights campaigners took to the streets across Iraq to protest proposed legal changes which effectively would legalize child marriage.

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.

Iraq's parliament has passed three divisive laws including amendments to the country's personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.