"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 ...

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

PARIS (AFP) — Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira ...

No child deprived of her human rights can imagine a path to a brighter future without support to overcome obstacles and someone to light the way. Child marriage, the early or forced marriage of a ...

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

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

UNCHAINED AT LAST Forced child-marriage survivors arrive at the state Capitol in Sacramento on June 22, 2023 to attend a protest organized to support a ban on child marriage. Photo by Rahul La, ...

Human rights groups and others have condemned the execution of a woman in Iran who was found guilty of killing the man she was forced to marry as a child. Amnesty International said it "is horrified ...