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'.

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

Courtney Stodden is looking back at a traumatic time in her adolescence. On Wednesday, May 20, the model, 31, took to ...

Married at 15, arrested at 17, child bride Zeineb Sekaanvand was tortured by the police for 20 days to coerce a confession.

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

A woman who was once a child bride in Afghanistan escaped, along with her infant son, and found her way years later to winning third place at a bodybuilding competition, representing Norway. NBC News’ ...