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'.

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

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 ...

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.

Afghanistan’s regime has formalised what the UN calls “gender apartheid” by legalising child marriage and the sale of infant ...

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NEW YORK -- A disturbing issue that affects many girls in our area is being forced into marriage when they are underage. It might surprise you that thousands of girls under the age of 18 are getting ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...