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

A proposed amendment to Iraq’s personal status law, which could lower the legal age of consent from 18 to 9, has sparked ...

The initial proposal to reform the law used the slogan “They’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being ...

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