KARMIDA, Morocco — Amina el-Filali, a moon-faced Moroccan peasant girl, seemed destined for an obscure life in this dreary little farming village 50 miles south of Tangiers. KARMIDA, Morocco — Amina ...

The French Supreme Court validated on Wednesday the marriage of a Franco-Moroccan homosexual couple, ruling that the fundamental freedom to marry outweighed a bilateral agreement between France and ...

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 ...

Last month a religious leader in Morocco, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Maghraoui, received a question on his website about whether a woman can get married before reaching puberty. He responded ...

Morocco's 2004 family code puts the legal age of marriage at 18, but it includes a clause allowing judges to give families special dispensation to marry off children under that age. Rights groups have ...