Iraq is poised to pass a new law that would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing men to marry young girls ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. There is a raging debate on whether to raise or lower the age of consent, which is 18 ...

Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children. The proposed legal ...

Religious leaders and family campaigners were today appealing to the Government to halt their plans to lower the gay age of consent. The Government's Bill lowering the age from 18 to 16 is ...

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 ...

Now, Okoth says she is worried other girls, including her 16-year-old daughter, may suffer the same fate, if the proposal to lower the age of sexual consent from 18 to 16 goes through. Yesterday ...

Berkshire County officials will promote new legislation aimed at protecting students from sexual predation in schools on a ...

This has to change, and this is what the two documentaries – The New Age of Consent – are aiming to do: to open and change the conversation around consent. By removing the entirely unnecessary ...

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 ...

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 ...

They would allow any minor to consent to services to prevent or treat ... Figures proposed an amendment to lower the age in the bill from 18 to 16, but it died in committee.