The girl will move into the man's house once she reaches the age of nine, in a case that has horrified the world ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Horrified by the prospect of being forced into marriage with a 41-year-old man, a 13-year-old ...

The Taliban were left "horrified" after a 45-year-old man married a six-year-old girl in a sickening ceremony in Afghanistan, ...

The law, when it was passed 65 years ago, established 18 as the legal age of marriage – though children can be married as young as 15 with permission from a judge or guardian.

Iraq is poised to pass a new law that would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing men to marry young girls, according to a new report.. The Shia conservative groups that ...

But there’s been a global drop in child marriages over the past few years, according to the agency’s statistics. “Ten years ago, one in four young women aged 20 to 24 was married as a child.

Iraq proposes lowering legal age of marriage for girls to NINE. Contentious new law has seen backlash from activists and rights groups in Iraq By JAMES REYNOLDS. Published: 07:07 EDT, 9 August ...

Percentage of women in the country aged 20 to 24 years, who were married before 18 years of age, was 48 among the Hindus in 2005-06, which was one per cent higher than Muslims.

Justice Jasmeet Singh observed, "A girl on attaining puberty could marry without the consent of her parents under the Muslim laws and has the right to reside with her husband even when she is ...

The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, ... one in four young women aged 20 to 24 was married as a ... not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry.

Furthermore, a girl who is married at a young age is 31% more likely to experience poverty later in adulthood, ... Wesleyan University ‘24, Women’s Rights Activist . More VIEWPOINTS.

The law, when it was passed 65 years ago, established 18 as the legal age of marriage – though children can be married as young as 15 with permission from a judge or guardian.