KABUL, Afghanistan — The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced ...
Deborah King | Posted 05.07.2012
Those who have cried out against the sexualization of clothing and behavior of young teen girls are raising a valid point. But fictional Lolitas aside, it simply isn't true that young females are responsible for seducing much older men.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SEMARANG, Indonesia — An Indonesian Muslim cleric who sparked a national outcry by marrying a 12-year-old girl was sentenced Wednesday to four y...
AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN'A, Yemen — A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization s...
Global Post | Jason Overdorf | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW DELHI -- Defying all the conventional wisdom about Indian television viewers -- notorious for dogged allegiance to campy soap operas that pitted...
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN'A, Yemen — She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the ma...
AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 05.25.2011
VIENNA — Yemen has barred a former child bride from being honored in Austria, saying she is too young to travel alone. When she was less than 1...
AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 05.05.2012