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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People participate in a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran and the death of Mahsa Amini in New York City, New York, U.S., ...

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

QUETTA, 28 September, 2017: It is a fine evening. A group of Afghan women are enjoying traditional Afghan tea with Roghni (Afghan snacks) and white Afghan sweets. Everybody is happy as they gather to ...

A child bride in Iran who was set to be executed after her husband died was saved after raising a hefty sum of money for the victim’s family, who agreed to spare her life. Goli Kouhkan, now 25, has ...

The woman had married her husband when she was just 12 — Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a ...

Amal Clooney praised the "resilience" of a Kenyan teenage girl whose business saved her from becoming a child bride after her father died. The human rights lawyer and husband George Clooney were at ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Just 15 years old, Sahar Gul has become the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan. The teenage bride’s eyes were swollen nearly shut as she was wheeled into ...

In this article, the author examines how Iraq’s Personal Status Code has weakened legal safeguards for women and girls, particularly by facilitating child marriage and creating a parallel religious ...