The new law would lower a girl’s consent from 18 to age 9. This includes allowing parents to have arranged marriages for their young daughters. Iraq doesn’t have a male guardianship system ...

A major leak in the small Central African nation has exposed deeper issues of consent, exploitation and public glorification of those involved. The scandal has ignited debates on privacy and ...

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 dominate ...

What is the proposed change to Iraq’s personal status law? The Iraqi parliament is considering an amendment to the personal status law that would lower the age of consent for girls to as young as nine ...

A sick newly proposed age of consent law would allow old men in Iraq to marry children as young as nine years old, and "legalise child rape" activists claim. Ultra-conservative Shia Muslim parties ...

A new law proposed by ultra conservative Shia Muslim parties seeks to strip women and girls of their rights Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to ...

A panel of the Japanese Justice Ministry has proposed raising the age of consent from 13 to 16. It forms part of a wider overhaul of Japan's laws on sex crimes, after multiple rape acquittals in ...