Under Illinois law, a person must be at least 17 years of age in order to give consent; it is illegal in Illinois for a person 18 or older to commit sexual acts on a person under the age of 18 if they ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KFOR)– A Senate bill that would increase the age of consent from 16 to 18 is now advancing to the House after receiving a unanimous vote for. Senator Warren Hamilton (R ...

A group of university students submitted a petition to the Justice Ministry on Nov. 20 requesting that the age of consent be raised from the current 13 to 16. The group called Your Voice Matters ...

The global age of consent ranges from 12 to 18 years with a median age of 15 years, according to the World Population Review 2021. In Kenya, the statutory age of consent is 18. There does not seem ...

Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater ...