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  • UK set to end legal loophole allowing child marriage

    UK set to end legal loophole allowing child marriage

    Britain must scrap a legal loophole allowing child marriage “by the back door,” lawmakers said ahead of the introduction of a bill in parliament on ...
    World News
  • Lebanon: More families are marrying off teenage daughters as economic despair sets in

    Lebanon: More families are marrying off teenage daughters as economic despair sets in

    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 ...
    Features
  • Hundreds protest against child marriage in Lebanon

    Hundreds protest against child marriage in Lebanon

    Hundreds protested on Saturday in Lebanon against child marriage, demanding lawmakers forbid unions below the age of 18, in a country where some ...
    Middle East
  • Amal Clooney Scholarship winner aims to fight child marriage, rape in Lebanon

    Amal Clooney Scholarship winner aims to fight child marriage, rape in Lebanon

    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, ...
    Entertainment
  • Sudanese court annuls marriage of 11-year-old girl to man aged 40

    Sudanese court annuls marriage of 11-year-old girl to man aged 40

    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 ...
    North Africa
  • Malaysian man fined after marrying 11-year-old Thai girl

    Malaysian man fined after marrying 11-year-old Thai girl

    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 ...
    World News
  • Outrage after Malaysian man marries 11-year-old Thai girl

    Outrage after Malaysian man marries 11-year-old Thai girl

    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 ...
    Variety
  • ‘Justice for Noura’ outrage at Sudan death sentence for girl allegedly raped

    ‘Justice for Noura’ outrage at Sudan death sentence for girl allegedly raped

    The sentencing of a teenage Sudanese girl to death for killing her husband has sparked online outrage, as Amnesty International said she was defending ...
    Features
  • Outrage as photos emerge of Egyptian children ‘engaged to be married’

    Outrage as photos emerge of Egyptian children ‘engaged to be married’

    The engagement ceremony photos of Zain, a 7-year-old second grader, and his 4–year-old cousin Faridah hit the internet by storm
    Variety
  • Pakistani girl married off to disabled groom so that father can get married

    Pakistani girl married off to disabled groom so that father can get married

    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
    Variety
  • Saudi investigation into 16-year-old girl’s marriage to elderly man

    Saudi investigation into 16-year-old girl’s marriage to elderly man

    This comes after social media users voiced their surprise over the marriage between an elderly man and a minor
    Variety
  • Retrial set for Malaysia rape-marriage case: lawyer

    Retrial set for Malaysia rape-marriage case: lawyer

    Activists welcomed the fresh hearing which is expected to take place end of September
    Variety
  • ‘Sadly ever after:’ Viral video exposes plight of 15 million child brides

    ‘Sadly ever after:’ Viral video exposes plight of 15 million child brides

    The video is only the beginning of the worldwide movement, which targets child marriage elimination by 2030
    Digital
  • UN aims to eliminate child marriage by 2030

    UN aims to eliminate child marriage by 2030

    If current trends persist, up to 280 million girls alive today could become child brides before the age of 18
    World News
  • Poverty, child marriage, violence decline when women own land

    Poverty, child marriage, violence decline when women own land

    Women are most often engaged in producing and collecting food, and as such, women do play a major role in how land is used
    Features
  • No one should have the authority to allow child marriage

    No one should have the authority to allow child marriage

    Child marriage is direct infringement on the rights of young girls to choose their life partner
    Middle East
  • Pakistan police arrest six over child wedding

    Pakistan police arrest six over child wedding

    Six people have been arrested for arranging the marriage of a seven-year-old boy and six-year-old girl
    News
  • U.N. voices alarm at growing number of child marriages in Iran

    U.N. voices alarm at growing number of child marriages in Iran

    U.N. rights experts warned over a growing number of child marriages in Iran
    Features
  • Pakistani clerics block ‘un-Islamic’ child marriage bill

    Pakistani clerics block ‘un-Islamic’ child marriage bill

    Pakistani lawmakers have withdrawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties on those who arrange child marriages
    Gulf
  • Breaking tradition, India's child brides fight for freedom

    Breaking tradition, India's child brides fight for freedom

    Nearly 50 percent of women, aged 20 to 24, say they were married before the legal age of 18
    Variety
  • Australian jailed over 12-year-old daughter’s ‘marriage’

    Australian jailed over 12-year-old daughter’s ‘marriage’

    The court had earlier heard that he wanted to save the girl from what he considered the sin of having sex outside marriage
    World News
  • ‘I don’t want to get married:’ Letter from Indian child bride to teacher

    ‘I don’t want to get married:’ Letter from Indian child bride to teacher

    13-year-old Indian child bride writes a letter begging for teacher's help to stop her upcoming wedding
    Features
  • Death penalty sought for Nigerian child bride

    Death penalty sought for Nigerian child bride

    Wasila Tasi’u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year-old husband
    Africa
  • U.N. members resolve to end child marriage

    U.N. members resolve to end child marriage

    U.S. members adopted by consensus a resolution urging all states to take steps to end “child, early and forced marriage”
    World News
  • Married at 11, Saudi woman tells her story

    Married at 11, Saudi woman tells her story

    Living in a poor neighborhood in Riyadh, she learned the hardship of life before she turned 10
    Variety
  • Syria’s child brides in Zaatari refugee camp speak up

    Syria’s child brides in Zaatari refugee camp speak up

    UNICEF said around a quarter of Syrian refugee marriages in Jordan involve girls under the age of 18
    Middle East
  • Nine-year-old boy remarries 62-year-old ‘wife’

    Nine-year-old boy remarries 62-year-old ‘wife’

    The boy says the second marriage is meant to make the relationship “official”
    Variety
  • Child marriages double among Syria refugees in Jordan

    Child marriages double among Syria refugees in Jordan

    The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan because of poverty and fear of sexual violence
    Middle East
  • Too young to wed? Yemen weighs marriage law

    Too young to wed? Yemen weighs marriage law

    In recent years, about 14 percent of girls in Yemen were married before age 15
    Art and culture
  • Married off for ‘honor,’ meet Pakistan’s child brides

    Married off for ‘honor,’ meet Pakistan’s child brides

    Offering young girls as brides in compensation to settle disputes persists in many areas of deeply conservative Pakistan
    Features
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