Protesters in London campaign against Iran's use of the death penalty in 2020 Iranian authorities put three women to death on Wednesday for murdering their husbands, a human rights charity says.

A new report released by UNICEF, the children's agency of the UN, says that South Asian countries have the highest number of child brides in the world., The data provided by the agency revealed that ...

There is a young woman sheltering under a tree between two busy roads clutching a pile of documents to her chest. These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: ...

Guardian story helped to draw attention to planned hanging of Goli Kouhkan over death of abusive husband A child bride who was due to be executed this month in Iran over the death of her husband has ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Ghada* was 15 when she fell pregnant with her third child. For three years, she had been married to an older man - a man her father had paired her with out of perceived necessity. 'My family is poor,' ...