An increasing number of families have become willing to marry off daughters at the age of 13 or 14 in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, community members say as ...
Hundreds protested on Saturday in Lebanon against child marriage, demanding lawmakers forbid unions below the age of 18, in a country where some ...
The 16-year-old winner of the annual Amal Clooney Scholarship said on Tuesday that she wants to combat child marriage and marital rape in Lebanon, ...
A Sudanese court has annulled the marriage of an 11-year-old girl to a 40-year-old man underlining that the marriage was illegal.The court has ruled ...
A Malaysian man who married an 11-year-old Thai girl has been fined 1,800 Malaysian pounds after pleading guilty to a court of law. Shi Abdul Karim ...
The marriage of a Malaysian man with an 11-year-old Thai girl has sparked outrage in the Muslim majority country with one activist Sunday labelling ...
The sentencing of a teenage Sudanese girl to death for killing her husband has sparked online outrage, as Amnesty International said she was defending ...
The engagement ceremony photos of Zain, a 7-year-old second grader, and his 4–year-old cousin Faridah hit the internet by storm
Mohammad Ramzan can neither hear nor speak, but he knew his wife, Saima, was too young when she was given to him as a bride
This comes after social media users voiced their surprise over the marriage between an elderly man and a minor
Activists welcomed the fresh hearing which is expected to take place end of September
The video is only the beginning of the worldwide movement, which targets child marriage elimination by 2030
If current trends persist, up to 280 million girls alive today could become child brides before the age of 18
Women are most often engaged in producing and collecting food, and as such, women do play a major role in how land is used
Child marriage is direct infringement on the rights of young girls to choose their life partner
Six people have been arrested for arranging the marriage of a seven-year-old boy and six-year-old girl
U.N. rights experts warned over a growing number of child marriages in Iran
Pakistani lawmakers have withdrawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties on those who arrange child marriages
Nearly 50 percent of women, aged 20 to 24, say they were married before the legal age of 18
The court had earlier heard that he wanted to save the girl from what he considered the sin of having sex outside marriage
13-year-old Indian child bride writes a letter begging for teacher's help to stop her upcoming wedding
Wasila Tasi’u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year-old husband
U.S. members adopted by consensus a resolution urging all states to take steps to end “child, early and forced marriage”
Living in a poor neighborhood in Riyadh, she learned the hardship of life before she turned 10
UNICEF said around a quarter of Syrian refugee marriages in Jordan involve girls under the age of 18
The boy says the second marriage is meant to make the relationship “official”
The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan because of poverty and fear of sexual violence
In recent years, about 14 percent of girls in Yemen were married before age 15
Offering young girls as brides in compensation to settle disputes persists in many areas of deeply conservative Pakistan
The cleric was arrested by the Child Abuse Squad and charged with solemnization of a marriage by an unauthorized person
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