Iraq is set to lower the legal age of consent from 18 to just nine, enabling men to marry young children. The proposed law would also strip women of essential rights, including divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
Marriage Bill India: The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha during the last Winter Session. The Government referred it to a Standing Committee for Parliamentary Scrutiny soon after its introduction.
Smriti Irani introduced the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021 that seeks to increase the legal minimum age for women to marry to 21 years.
President Mamnoon Hussain on Sunday gave his approval to the Hindu Marriage Bill, 2017 on the advice of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, turning it into law.
Pakistan's Parliament has passed a landmark bill giving its small Hindu minority the right to register marriages in the country. Pakistan's Hindus were set to get an exclusive personal law to regulate marriages after the
London,Jan 25: The British government published a bill to legalize same-sex marriage on Friday, and said lawmakers will get their first vote on it in Parliament next month.The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill extends marriage
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