A new report published in the Official Bulletin revealed that Moroccan courts received 16,790 requests for child marriage in ...

Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi rejected framing divorce as a “crime,” describing it instead as a mutual contract between two individuals that can end by agreement. Speaking Monday before the House ...

Although lawmakers have tightened the rules governing the marriage of minors since 2004, it is still possible for a man to marry a young girl in Morocco. Many hope that the reform of the family code ...

The parliament of Morocco has removed a section of its penal code that allowed rapists of underage girls to marry their victims in order to avoid being prosecuted, reports the International ...

Morocco’s Supreme Council of the Judiciary reported that courts across the country received 16,755 requests for marriages ...

Nadia was just 16 when she was married off to a violent husband old enough to be her father -- an ordeal thousands of Moroccan girls face every year due t... Already a Barron's subscriber? Sign In ...

On the first day of June, celebrated as Pride month in many places, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for all countries to provide legal protections for same-sex ...

Despite the introduction of the new Family Law, or Moudawana, in Morocco, effectively raising the minimum age for marriage, the number of girls being forced into wedlock is rising. This increase has ...