“We should take the age of marriage for boys to 20 and for girls to about 16 and 17,” the president said.

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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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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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.

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 ...

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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.