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Michelle Obama’s Girls Opportunity Alliance pledges $2.5 million for grassroots education
Former first lady Michelle Obama is putting new force behind efforts to ensure ...
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UK set to end legal loophole allowing child marriage
Britain must scrap a legal loophole allowing child marriage “by the back door,” ...
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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 ...
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Hundreds protest against child marriage in Lebanon
Hundreds protested on Saturday in Lebanon against child marriage, demanding ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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‘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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saudi investigation into 16-year-old girl’s marriage to elderly man
This comes after social media users voiced their surprise over the marriage ...
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Retrial set for Malaysia rape-marriage case: lawyer
Activists welcomed the fresh hearing which is expected to take place end of ...
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Pakistan police arrest six over child wedding
Six people have been arrested for arranging the marriage of a seven-year-old boy ...
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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
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Pakistani clerics block ‘un-Islamic’ child marriage bill
Pakistani lawmakers have withdrawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties on those ...
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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 ...
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Australian jailed over 12-year-old daughter’s ‘marriage’
The court had earlier heard that he wanted to save the girl from what he ...
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‘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 ...
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Death penalty sought for Nigerian child bride
Wasila Tasi’u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year-old husband
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U.N. members resolve to end child marriage
U.S. members adopted by consensus a resolution urging all states to take steps to ...
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Married at 11, Saudi woman tells her story
Living in a poor neighborhood in Riyadh, she learned the hardship of life before ...
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Syria’s child brides in Zaatari refugee camp speak up
UNICEF said around a quarter of Syrian refugee marriages in Jordan involve girls ...
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Nine-year-old boy remarries 62-year-old ‘wife’
The boy says the second marriage is meant to make the relationship “official”
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Child marriages double among Syria refugees in Jordan
The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan ...
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Too young to wed? Yemen weighs marriage law
In recent years, about 14 percent of girls in Yemen were married before age 15
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