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Expert: Child marriage ban violates Islamic customs

Jasmin Romero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 13 05:58 PM

An expert on Islamic Studies warned on Wednesday that a new law that criminalized child marriages in the Philippines violates Muslim marriage customs. Read more »

PH law vs child marriages removes cultural exemptions'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 07 11:40 AM

The new law vs child marriages covers the entire Philippines and removes religious and cultural exemptions, one of the authors said Friday. Read more »

Duterte signs law criminalizing child marriage

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 06 03:10 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law criminalizing child marriage, which has affected hundreds of thousands of Filipino youth. Read more »

World's children bearing brunt of pandemic: Vatican

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 23 01:43 PM

The studies were produced by the Vatican's development office and the Pontifical Academy for Life. Read more »

House ratifies bill banning child marriage

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 27 11:43 PM

The House of Representatives has ratified the bicameral conference committee report prohibiting the practice of child marriage. Read more »

Solon hopeful of passage of anti-child marriage bill

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 10 10:02 AM

A lawmaker has high hopes that the bill seeking to end child marriages in the Philippines will be passed into law before Christmas. Read more »

House OKs bill seeking to ban child marriage

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 06 07:31 PM

Voting 196-0-2, the House of Representatives on Monday approved on final reading House Bill 9943 which seeks to ban child marriage in the country. Read more »

Groups launch #ENDChildMarriage online petition in PH

Aleta Nieva Nishimori, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 11 07:01 PM

A multisectoral group advocating for the rights of women and children launched on Tuesday an online signature campaign to end child marriage in the Philippines. Read more »

Senate passes bill declaring child marriage as illegal on final reading

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 10 10:35 AM

The Senate on Monday unanimously approved a bill that criminalizes child marriages in the Philippines. Read more »

Senate approves on second reading bill declaring child marriage as illegal

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 12 09:47 PM

The Senate on Monday passed on second reading a bill that declares child marriage as illegal in the Philippines. Read more »

Lawmakers urged to ban child marriage in Britain

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 07 02:51 AM

LONDON - Britain is sabotaging girls' futures and condoning child sex abuse by failing to scrap an "anachronistic" law allowing child marriage, a lawmaker told parliament on Tuesday as she presented a bill to criminalize marriage under 18. Read more »

Study: COVID-19 pandemic puts half a million more girls at risk of child marriage

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 07:24 PM

The new report also showed as many as one million more girls are expected to become pregnant.   Read more »

Children having children in Palawan: Bill filed to seek end to child marriages

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 05 07:00 PM

Children as young as 9 are having kids of their own, according to Sen. Risa Hontiveros, who sponsored a bill that sought to end child marriages in the country. Read more »