With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

The age of consent at which an individual is considered legally old enough to participate in sexual activity varies from country to country around the world. Some countries do not have a set age ...

In Iraq, the Shiite-influenced regime wants to scrap a 65-year-old law that protects girls. The age of legal consent could be ...

We expect a girl or boy growing up in Mwingi, Kitui County, to enjoy the same legal protection as one growing up in Kawangware and Runda in Nairobi. One way the law provides this uniform ...

Currently, Japan has the lowest age of consent in developed countries, and the lowest in ... He was later sent to prison after prosecutors appealed. Another saw a man found not guilty of raping ...

Mario Lopez has reacted to Iraq possibly passing a controversial law that would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to ...

A sick newly proposed age of consent law would allow old men in Iraq ... and the government has claimed the move would align the country's governance closer to the strict interpretation of Islamic ...

The definition of rape was broadened to "non-consensual sexual intercourse" from "forcible sexual intercourse", aligning Japanese law's definition with other countries. The legal age of consent ...

The new law would lower a girl’s consent from ... around the country. The protests have been met with clashes against local law enforcement. Although marriage under the age of 18 has been ...

The law is going to a second vote by the country's government, but it has opposition from youth activist groups and from 215 women parliamentary members.