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Iraq Proposes Law To Reduce Legal Age Of Marriage For Girls To 9
A proposed bill in Iraq's parliament has sparked widespread outrage and concern, as it seeks to reduce the legal age of marriage for girls to just 9 years old.
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Court Upholds 16-Year-Old Muslim Girl's Marriage, Provides Protection
The petition had also contended that a Muslim boy or Muslim girl who has attained puberty is at liberty to marry any one he or she likes and the guardian has no right to interfere.
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It "Debases, Degrades, And Demeans": Philippines Bans Child Marriage
Child marriage became illegal in the Philippines on Thursday as a law banning the practice took effect in a country where one in six girls enters wedlock before the age of 18.
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Women "Will Get Time To Study, Make Careers": PM Modi Backs Marriage Age Bill
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday backed the central government's decision to increase the age of marriage of daughters from 18 to 21 saying that it will lead to daughters getting time to make their career.
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On Raising Marriage Age For Women, Centre Tweaks Stand After Backlash
On a proposed law to raise the marriage age of women from 18 to 21, the government may agree to a review by a panel of MPs. Sources say the government does not want to rush on the move, which has drawn mixed reactions.
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New Rajasthan Law Faces Questions Over Validating Child Marriages
Rajasthan has amended a 2009 law to now state that if the bride is under 18 and the bridegroom is under 21, their parents must register the marriage within 30 days of the event. The earlier version had set the age criterion at 21 for both.
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Let 18 Years Be Recognised As Legal Age For Marriage For Men Too: Law Panel
The Law Commission today suggested that 18 years should be the minimum legal age for men and women alike to get married, saying the insistence on recognising different ages of marriage between consenting adults must be abolished.
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Sex With Wife Below 18 Is Rape, Says Supreme Court
Sex with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark decision to end an exception in the law for men married to girls who are above 15.
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Pictures Of Two Egyptian Children Engaged To Be Married Trigger Outrage
While celebrating his eldest son's lavish wedding, at which a number of famous singers and belly dancers performed, Nasser Hassan decided to "double the joy," he later recalled.
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Australian Jailed Over 12 Year Old Daughter's 'Marriage'
An Australian man who consented to an Islamic "marriage" ceremony between his 12 year old daughter and a man more than twice her age was today jailed for at least six years.
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Brides escape marriage, but not lashes
The two Afghan girls had every reason to expect the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were in. Disguised in boys' clothes, the girls, ages 13 and 14, had been fleeing for two days along rutted roads and over mountain passes to escape their illegal, forced marriages to much older men, and now they had m...
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Iraq Proposes Law To Reduce Legal Age Of Marriage For Girls To 9
A proposed bill in Iraq's parliament has sparked widespread outrage and concern, as it seeks to reduce the legal age of marriage for girls to just 9 years old.
-
Court Upholds 16-Year-Old Muslim Girl's Marriage, Provides Protection
The petition had also contended that a Muslim boy or Muslim girl who has attained puberty is at liberty to marry any one he or she likes and the guardian has no right to interfere.
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It "Debases, Degrades, And Demeans": Philippines Bans Child Marriage
Child marriage became illegal in the Philippines on Thursday as a law banning the practice took effect in a country where one in six girls enters wedlock before the age of 18.
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Women "Will Get Time To Study, Make Careers": PM Modi Backs Marriage Age Bill
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday backed the central government's decision to increase the age of marriage of daughters from 18 to 21 saying that it will lead to daughters getting time to make their career.
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On Raising Marriage Age For Women, Centre Tweaks Stand After Backlash
On a proposed law to raise the marriage age of women from 18 to 21, the government may agree to a review by a panel of MPs. Sources say the government does not want to rush on the move, which has drawn mixed reactions.
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New Rajasthan Law Faces Questions Over Validating Child Marriages
Rajasthan has amended a 2009 law to now state that if the bride is under 18 and the bridegroom is under 21, their parents must register the marriage within 30 days of the event. The earlier version had set the age criterion at 21 for both.
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Let 18 Years Be Recognised As Legal Age For Marriage For Men Too: Law Panel
The Law Commission today suggested that 18 years should be the minimum legal age for men and women alike to get married, saying the insistence on recognising different ages of marriage between consenting adults must be abolished.
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Sex With Wife Below 18 Is Rape, Says Supreme Court
Sex with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark decision to end an exception in the law for men married to girls who are above 15.
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Pictures Of Two Egyptian Children Engaged To Be Married Trigger Outrage
While celebrating his eldest son's lavish wedding, at which a number of famous singers and belly dancers performed, Nasser Hassan decided to "double the joy," he later recalled.
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Australian Jailed Over 12 Year Old Daughter's 'Marriage'
An Australian man who consented to an Islamic "marriage" ceremony between his 12 year old daughter and a man more than twice her age was today jailed for at least six years.
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Brides escape marriage, but not lashes
The two Afghan girls had every reason to expect the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were in. Disguised in boys' clothes, the girls, ages 13 and 14, had been fleeing for two days along rutted roads and over mountain passes to escape their illegal, forced marriages to much older men, and now they had m...
