The draft code proposes more than 100 amendments, including one which allows women to stipulate opposition to polygamy in a marriage contract, justice minister Abdellatif Ouahbi told reporters.

Candidly explaining Mormonism’s complicated experience with polygamy to adults requires nuance, context and care. Introducing it to children can be even trickier, if not nearly impossible.

These changes include reforms on marriage age, legal guardianship, polygamy, divorce procedures, alimony, property transfer, custody, and inheritance. Ouahbi said that “the contents of the ...

In the past, Chechen authorities voiced support for legalizing polygamy in Russia. In 2015, Magomed Daudov, a close associate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, described polygamy as a ...

The decision comes after widespread criticism on social media and from officials, who pointed out that Russian law prohibits polygamy. Russia's top Islamic body has withdrawn a contentious ...

Russia’s Muslim Spiritual Administration’s Ulema Council (an advisory body of Muslim scholars) has withdrawn a fatwa permitting religious polygamy, reported RIA Novosti. The decision follows a formal ...

The ruling permits religious polygamy in cases where the wife is unable to conceive due to health issues, has reached the end of her reproductive age, or for other “objective reasons,” such as ...

“Second, polygamy used to be much more concentrated in rural areas. Now, it is equally prevalent in urban areas; urban areas saw an increase of nine percentage points in the proportion of women ...