"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages ...

The Taliban has issued a new law on divorce that explicitly acknowledges child marriage is permitted in Afghanistan. Two ...

Hanifeh Avandi, a 24-year-old Turkish woman from Tabriz, was reportedly executed in Iran on Sunday, April 19, amid claims she ...

Yemen locals claim a girl has died of internal bleeding after marrying a man five times her age, but official denies allegations ...

She was sentenced to death under qisas, the Islamic legal principle of 'retaliation in kind'.

Ohio legislators are not voting on a bipartisan bill that would ban marriage before the age of 18. Chagrin Falls resident ...

Teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh resist child marriage, empowered by frontline workers, aiming for education and social change.

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

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The world should have been outraged by her execution, yet they were deathly silent, preferring to focus on other issues, as if it did not matter.