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

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

The Taliban has issued a new law on divorce that explicitly acknowledges child marriage is permitted in Afghanistan. Two ...

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

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

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.

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, ...

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

Some Republican state senators blocked a bill that would have closed a loophole that allows teens to marry at age 17, which ...

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 ...