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 ...

Advocate Josephine Adhet Deng told Radio Tamazuj she was punched on Wednesday morning at the Northern Division Police station in the capital, Juba, by a group acting on the orders of General Manhiem ...

Haseen Mastan Mirza, who recently made headlines advocating for justice in a case involving alleged forced marriage and rape, ...

Devastating footage from the north-central China province of Gansu shows a beautiful bride bawling at her wedding because she’s being forced to marry a man she barely knows, AsiaWire T4 reports. The ...

A Christian group marked International Women’s Day 2021 by highlighting forced marriages and conversions - an ongoing problem for millions of girls in the developing world. Maira Shabaz, a 14-year-old ...

The people of Afghanistan are suffering and women are paying the highest price as poverty and unemployment ravage the country. Since the Taliban takeover in August, the living conditions of Afghan ...

MANILA – The Philippines on Friday launched a multiyear national action plan to end child, early, and forced marriages and ...

Sitting in her family tent in Mauritania’s Mbera refugee camp, 12-year-old Fatimata concentrates intently as she draws a flower on her school notebook. Behind her are piled the mattresses and blankets ...

The Australian government announced Sunday that victims of forced marriages in Australia will have access to a support policy providing needs-based prevention and early intervention as part of a push ...

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. As President Barack Obama was preparing for his 2012 ...