Child marriage

Marital rape
Sexual Violence
Perspectives

In marriages across MENA, consent is fictional and rape is legal

Laws across the MENA still fail to criminalise marital rape, undermining any notion of consent & often silencing survivors, writes Paleki Ayang.

Paleki Ayang
01 December, 2025
Activists hail Kuwait abolishing ‘honour killing’ Penal Code, raising legal marriage age
Kuwait
MENA
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Activists hail Kuwait abolishing honour killing, child marriage

Nadda Osman
18 March, 2025
Iraqi parliament
Iraqi parliament
MENA
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Iraq parliament passes disputed laws, could allow child marriage

Dana Taib Menmy
22 January, 2025
Activists demonstrate against female child marriages in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024,
Iraq
MENA
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Iraq MPs postpone vote on revised bill over child marriage

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 December, 2024
Iraq
MENA
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Amnesty calls for Iraq to drop changes to child marriage law

The New Arab Staff
11 October, 2024
Iraqi parliament
Iraqi parliament
MENA
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Iraq parliament closer to pass personal status law amendments

Dana Taib Menmy
18 September, 2024
Iraqi parliament
Iraqi parliament
MENA
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Iraq's parliament revisits controversial civil status law today

Dana Taib Menmy
16 September, 2024
To avoid sectarian chaos, Iraq must not lower child marriage age
Iraq
Perspectives

The debate on child marriage in Iraq and what's really at stake

Zahra Ali

Zahra Ali

10 September, 2024
Child marriage
Society
Live Story

Iraq draft law to lower legal marriage age to 9 causes outrage

The New Arab Staff

Shahab Al-Sameer

21 August, 2024
protest against child marriages
Iraq
MENA
Live Story

Protests erupt over changes to Iraqi Personal Status Law

Dana Taib Menmy
08 August, 2024
The Iraqi parliament, located in Baghdad
Iraqi parliament
MENA
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Iraqi parliament delays amendments to personal status law

Dana Taib Menmy
26 July, 2024
Meet the teenage girls taking on child marriage in Morocco
Morocco
Society
Live Story

Meet the teenage girls taking on child marriage in Morocco

Olivia Hooper

Olivia Hooper

23 February, 2024
morocco women protest [getty]
Morocco
MENA
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Morocco moves a step closer to criminalise child marriage

Basma El Atti
08 February, 2024
Morocco
MENA
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What do Moroccan women expect from new family code reform?

Basma El Atti
28 September, 2023
Egypt
MENA
Live Story

Calls renew for tougher laws on underage marriages in Egypt

Thaer Mansour
22 November, 2022
Meet the Turkish municipality leader saving dozens of girls from child marriage
Turkey
Interviews
Live Story

Meet the Turkish leader saving girls from child marriage

The New Arab Staff

Marwa Koçak

04 February, 2022
Desmond Tutu
Perspectives

Desmond Tutu's True Self

Mabel van Oranje

Mabel van Oranje

28 December, 2021
Child brides
Afghanistan
MENA
Live Story

Afghans 'marry off' girls for dowries as starvation looms

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 November, 2021
Iraq
MENA
Live Story

12-year-old girl's marriage causes outrage in Baghdad, Iraq

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 November, 2021
turkey
International Women's Day
MENA
Live Story

Turkey 'opens political arms' to Egypt, Gulf

The New Arab Staff
08 March, 2021
jordan
poverty
MENA
Live Story

11 million jobs lost in MENA over Covid-19: report

The New Arab Staff
01 March, 2021