BAGHDAD — She was just 11 when she was sold into wedlock with a man 36 years her senior. In the nine years since, she said she has been raped, beaten, divorced and returned to her family, who ...

Newsweek contacted Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment via email outside normal business hours. Opponents to the amendments say they effectively legalize child marriage in Iraq and mark ...

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 28 percent of girls in Iraq are married before the age of 18. Child marriage puts girls at increased risk of sexual and physical ...

On International Women’s Day, March 8, a human rights researcher warned about the concerning state of women’s rights in Iraq, ...

Iraq's parliament today passed several laws that critics say will effectively legalise child marriage for girls as young as nine. The amendments to Iraq's personal status law will give Islamic ...

In this episode of Unfinished Stories, Hevidar Ahmed travels around Iraq to explore the impact ... Ahmed speaks with women who married young and their marriages subsequently failed.

Iraq's parliament passed into law on ... religious or civil regulations for family matters such as marriage, inheritance, divorce and child custody. An earlier version of the amendments faced ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

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