President of the Women’s Wing of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) Benue State chapter, Hajia Hauwa Isah, has debunked the ...

In a landmark move to protect children, especially girls, from forced child marriages, a provincial assembly in Pakistan on ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...

A personal account of generational wounds, entrenched customs, and the fight to end child marriage in Pakistan.

Timur Soykan reported on a court case into the alleged marriage in the İsmailağa sect, a politically influential religious community. The revelation of an alleged marriage of the daughter of a ...

SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan — Tabassum Adnan married at 14. Such was the norm in the small village in Swat Valley, a conservative region in Pakistan near the Afghan border. What's unusual is that she ...

The prosecutor’s office in Kenitra has dismissed allegations of a forced child marriage that circulated widely on social ...

(Abuja) – Child marriage remains prevalent in Nigeria because the federal and state governments have not adequately enforced laws to prevent it, Human Rights Watch said today. Nigeria’s rates of child ...

Iraqi lawmakers have passed amendments that give courts more authority in family matters, the Associated Press reported, and critics are concerned the move may spark a rise in child marriages.

Mumbai: Nearly 85% of Muslim women in polygamous marriages want polygamy to be abolished, a recent survey by the Bharatiya ...

Despite being illegal under article 10 of the Personal Status Law (1959), which governs all family matters for Muslims in Iraq, marriages entered into outside of the Personal Status Court continue to ...

THE father of a 12-year-old child “bride” told her that Australian law was stupid and girls her age should be allowed to get married and have sex. The girl’s 63-year-old father, who cannot be named, ...