Forced marriage occurs when one or both individuals are married without freely agreeing to it. This can include situations ...

Shahbaz was married to her abductor in March, despite most provinces requiring a person to be at least 18 to marry.

Nagpur: A minor girl was allegedly abducted at the age of 16 in 2020, sexually exploited and later forced into a marriage by a youth. The case came to light on Friday when she approached the police ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author on her wedding day. (Courtesy of Fraidy Reiss) The author on her wedding day. "I was a 19-year-old bride, in the ...

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 ...

A man was arrested outside an Olive Garden restaurant in Newington, New Hampshire, after a woman told police she had been held against her will, forced into a marriage and injured during a "satanic ...

No child deprived of her human rights can imagine a path to a brighter future without support to overcome obstacles and someone to light the way. Child marriage, the early or forced marriage of a ...

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PARIS (Reuters) - As thousands of girls and young women prepare to start the new school year in France, activists are sounding the alarm over those who are missing -- teenagers sent abroad over the ...

Thabile* was 15 when she was forced to marry a man in his thirties in the Mgudlulweni village near Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape. Her parents agreed to “give” their daughter to him. She did not know ...

A research report that examines Scotland's legal protection for those at risk of forced marriage has been published by the University of Glasgow. The report, "Combating Forced Marriage: Strengthening ...