Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

QUETTA, 28 September, 2017: It is a fine evening. A group of Afghan women are enjoying traditional Afghan tea with Roghni (Afghan snacks) and white Afghan sweets. Everybody is happy as they gather to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People participate in a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran and the death of Mahsa Amini in New York City, New York, U.S., ...

In Rajasthan, India, Munna is playing football to avoid getting married young. Adapted from Assignment from the BBC World ...

A child bride in Iran who was set to be executed after her husband died was saved after raising a hefty sum of money for the victim’s family, who agreed to spare her life. Goli Kouhkan, now 25, has ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Just 15 years old, Sahar Gul has become the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan. The teenage bride’s eyes were swollen nearly shut as she was wheeled into ...

The woman had married her husband when she was just 12 — Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a ...

Correction: an earlier version of this story and headline said that India failed to “sign” the resolution. In fact, it chose not to co-sponsor it. The story and headline have been edited to reflect ...

In this article, the author examines how Iraq’s Personal Status Code has weakened legal safeguards for women and girls, particularly by facilitating child marriage and creating a parallel religious ...

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager ch.

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