The age of consent in Central American and Caribbean countries ranges from 13 to 18 – though some nations have different rules for same-sex relationships. In Cuba, the age of consent is 16 ...

Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater ...

House Bill 1003, organized by Representative Jim Olsen, increases the age of consent to 18 years old. Prior to the bill, the ...

Oklahoma Senate unanimously passes a bill to raise age of consent from 16 to 18 to combat child sex trafficking, with full support from all present senators.

"Various socio-legal and religious difficulties come in the way of raising the minimum age of consent for a girl from ... are married by the age of 19 while 13 per cent are married by the age ...