Iraq’s top court has suspended implementation of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, including a measure that activists say undermines women’s rights.

Amendments to Iraq's personal status law have been suspended by the country's Supreme Court, pausing plans to allow girls as ...

Iraq’s proposal to lower the legal marriage age for girls to as young as 9 isn’t about protection—it’s about controlling and ...

Iraq’s parliament has approved new legislation that would lower the minimum age of marriage below 18, a shift rights groups ...

Currently, the minimum age for a girl's marriage is 18, but the proposed changes to the law would give more power to clerics ...

Iraq’s parliament has passed a law that legalizes child marriage during a parliamentary session in Baghdad, the nation’s capital on Tuesday, January 21. This law amendments grant Islamic ...

AP FILE - Protesters gather to demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File) Iraq's parliament ...

The development comes even as child marriage remains a longstanding issue in Iraq, where 28 per cent of girls were married before they turned 18, according to a 2023 UN survey. The Iraqi Parliament ...

Protesters in Baghdad's Tahrir Square demonstrating against a proposed law that critics said would legalize child marriage in Iraq on August 8, 2024. Protesters in Baghdad's Tahrir Square ...

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 ...