The Bombay High Court upheld a 10-year sentence for a man accused of raping his minor wife, ruling that consensual sex with a ...

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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A proposed amendment to Iraq’s personal status law, which could lower the legal age of consent from 18 to 9, has sparked outrage and concern across the country. The amendment, spearheaded by dominant ...

As parents have started seeing social media as a potential source of family income, child influencers and family vlogging ...

In the last six months almost every High Court has faced the question of criminalization of romantic relationships under the ...

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

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The pre-amended Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code defined rape as sexual intercourse with a woman: “firstly—against her ...

The appellate court's ruling vacates the preliminary injunction altogether and definitively authorizes state officials to ...