An Iranian child bride who was forced to marry at 15 has been hanged in Iran for murdering her husband who had abused her for years. Samira Sabzian, 29, who had been in prison for the past decade, was ...

Millions of girls across the world end up as child brides, despite the practice being outlawed in many countries. But some girls are defying their families' attempts to marry them off. Some 10 million ...

An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age in Yemen. SANAA (Reuters) - An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding ...

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Kindness from Canadians has been a key factor to Dr. Samra Zafar’s success — as well as her saving grace. But the beginning of her life in this country had nothing of the kind: When she first came to ...

This heartbreaking footage captured a mass child marriage ceremony where girls as young as five were forced to wed older grooms. Most of the girls were crying but in one distressing clip a 10-year-old ...

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An Iranian child bride who was forced to marry at just 12 years old is facing execution over the death of her abusive husband. Goli Kouhkan, an undocumented Baluch woman today aged 25, is set to be ...

Seventeen-year-old Agnes (not her real name) was married three months ago to a man she had never met. "My parents sat me down and told me I was no longer their responsibility. They wanted me to move ...

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