Marriage

"90-fold increase" in loan requests for child marriage in Iran

Reports indicate that, along with the increase in the number of marriage loans in Iran, the number of applicants for these loans for marriages of people under 15…

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Ministry of Youth: Child marriage has quadrupled in some parts of Iran

The Ministry of Sports and Youth has warned about a fourfold increase in child marriage, attributing it to the increase in loans…

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Marriage rates in Iran have dropped by 40 percent over the past decade.

A senior health ministry official has released statistics that support recent reports of a sharp decline in marriages and an increase in divorces in Iran.

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Child marriage has increased by 42 percent in East Azerbaijan

After Zanjan, which ranks first in child marriage, this time the Deputy Minister of Social Affairs of the General Welfare Department of Azerbaijan…

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Complaint filed against the person who released the video of a minor girl's marriage

The Chief Justice of Bahmai County, one of the cities in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces, has filed a complaint against a citizen accused of publishing…

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The marriage age of girls in a village in Bojnourd has been reduced from 11 to 8 to 9 years old.

A report by Iran Newspaper indicates that the marriage age for girls in the village of Bidak, located 5 kilometers from Bojnord, has recently been...

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Last year, 44 children under the age of 15 became mothers in Hamedan.

  The Director General of Hamedan Civil Registration said: Two percent of births in Hamedan province are to mothers under the age of 15, and 90…

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Masoumeh Ebtekar: The age gap between some child wives is 50 years

Marriage Week in Iran is underway with promotional and incentive programs while one in every two marriages…

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