Up to 70% of girls may be in early or forced marriages but law now makes divorce impossible if husbands disagree ...

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

Rights organizations warned new marriage regulations in Afghanistan could legitimize child marriage and further weaken ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She was her own “something blue.” Devastating footage from the north-central China province of Gansu shows a beautiful bride ...

Millions of people across Afghanistan are now struggling to survive as unemployment remains high and international aid continues to fall.

In the year 2008, Malaysian prince Tengku Fakhry married an Indonesian-American model named Manohara Odelia. Manohara was just 16 at the time of her ‘marriage’, and she fled Malaysia a year later, ...

The "Flying News" magazine of the Flying Broom women's organization takes international attention beyond Turkish borders. "Early and forced marriages" is the topic of this year's first special edition ...

The Calcutta High Court was hearing an appeal filed by a man challenging his seven-year rigorous imprisonment sentence in a ...

When Humayra Abedin left the U.K. on Aug. 2 with a round-trip ticket to Bangladesh after hearing that her mother was sick, she had no idea the “illness” was a ruse to lure her home to marry a suitor ...