Just a few decades ago, women in the Middle East had an average of seven children each. Now they're barely having enough ...

Joan from Iraq recalls the trauma of being married off at 18 ...

Scotland could ban "child marriages" after the SNP Government confirmed it will formally consider raising the age at which ...

Without safe access to food, water, or medical care, survival has become a daily gamble for the region’s youngest residents.

One member of the minority religious community found asylum in Europe and sends home his meager grocery store wages.

Iraq’s top court will resume work after nine judges returned following the retirement of its president. The Supreme Judicial ...

HRW says over 120 children abducted by ISIS-linked group in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province since beginning of 2025.

An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has ramped up abductions of children in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights ...

Human Rights Watch found that unregistered marriages function as loopholes enabling child marriage in Iraq. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, 22 percent of unregistered marriages ...

Headline Jan 24, 2025 Iraq’s parliament has approved new legislation that would lower the minimum age of marriage below 18, a shift rights groups say will legalize “child rape” in Iraq.

Child marriage has been a prevalent issue in Iraq. A 2023 U.N. survey found that between 2015 and 2021, 28 percent of girls were married before they turned 18.