Using data from the United Nations, Age of Consent and Girls Not Brides, Newsweek has compiled a map that looks at the different marriage and consent laws across the world. In many countries, the ...

The original age of consent, ... depending on the country. In 1840, the age was 15.3 years. By the early 1980s, it was 12.8. At first, the trend was driven by nutrition, ...

With the Epstein list in the news, important conversations are being had about sexual violence, power and the law. But something big is still missing. We are not talking about consent. Many adults ...

In most European countries, the age of consent is 15 or 16, but some countries diverge from the norm. Albania, Austria, Hungary, Italy , Serbia, Germany , Montenegro and Portugal all set their age ...

The age of consent for sex is different in different countries. India has set 18 as the age of consent, whereas it is 16 in Britain and 14 in Germany and China. The change was made as part of a ...

More recently, U.S. age of consent laws expanded to include boys and girls. All 50 states now prohibit sex between adults of any gender and children of any gender who are too young to consent to sex.

Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children. The proposed legal change also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and ...

Japan changed its definition of rape and raised the age of consent to 16, from 13, on Friday, bringing the country’s sex crimes laws closer in line with those in the United States and Europe.

A Japanese justice ministry panel on Friday proposed raising the country's age of consent, currently among the world's lowest at just 13, as part of a major overhaul of sex crime legislation.

Moreover, age is immaterial for the offences punishable under Sections 364, 364A, 365 and 366 IPC. Importantly, Section 366A employs the word “minor girl” and prescribes minimal age of 18 years.