A study by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) reveals that 85% of Muslim women surveyed want polygamy abolished, with ...

A British couple’s Mallorca wedding ended in court after they demanded a full refund for “emotional distress” when their DJ ...

As more Muslim women approach courts, the judiciary is expanding their rights. Contentious issues such as talaq-e-hasan, ...

India has long had a legal prohibition on bigamy. What the new Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill attempts to criminalise is not a fresh offence. A secular bar already exists in the form of the former ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Five years ago, Utah decriminalized polygamy. Now, service providers are seeing an incline in reports of abuse among polygamist communities. “People that live in these cultures ...

The Assam Legislative Assembly on Thursday (November 27) passed the Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025, making it the second state in the country after Uttarakhand to legislate specifically ...

It is firstly essential to object to the use of the term “spinsterhood,” for its socially harmful judgments and belittlement of both women and men, as the term is a diminishing traditional one that ...

Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill 2025: The Assam Assembly passed a bill to ban polygamy on Thursday, making it an offence which may lead to a maximum of 10 years of imprisonment, barring some ...

'The older the better': Child psychiatrist weighs in on new Australia law banning social media access for children under 16 ...

The Vatican has issued a new decree, approved by Pope Leo, reaffirming its stance that Catholics should commit to one spouse for life. The Holy See’s top doctrinal office told the world’s 1.4 billion ...

VATICAN— A new Vatican document defends marriage as a monogamous relationship amid the growing popularity of polyamory, and addresses the pastoral challenges caused by conversion to Catholicism of ...

Assam's government has proposed a bill to prohibit polygamous marriages, introducing penalties of up to seven years imprisonment for offenders. The legislation also bars convicted individuals from ...