Marriage age
- Middle East
After massive backlash, Iraq revises legal marriage age for girls to 15
Iraq’s parliament recently revised and approved amendments to the Personal Status Law which reduced the minimum marriage age for girls to be married to 15 years. This decision marks a major step…
- India
Parliamentary panel to hear officials on marriage age next week
New Delhi: A Parliamentary Standing Committee will take up the issue of the age of marriage for men and women next week as a bill aimed at bringing uniformity in the matter…
- India
Parl panel examining bill on marriage age of women gets another extension
New Delhi: A parliamentary committee examining a bill seeking to raise the age of marriage of women from the present 18 years to 21 has been given another extension to table its…
- India
RSS affiliate MRM to raise awareness on raising women’s minimum marriage age
Syed Ali Mujtaba Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an affiliate of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has said it will run awareness campaigns across the country in support of raising the minimum marriage age…
