The 54-page report, “‘How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?’: Child Marriage in Yemen,” documents the lifelong damage to girls who are forced to marry young. Yemeni girls and ...

Two years into the marriage ... of these cases stem from child marriages. Fawziah Yun, a supervisor with the union, is calling for international pressure to get Yemen to ban the practice.

She resisted her father’s plan for the marriage in Yemen to the son of the head of ... helps women and girls escape forced marriages and child marriages. The fiancé explained that he last ...

For example, child marriage rates have risen in war-ravaged Yemen, one of the few countries in the world without a legal minimum age for marriage. Now more than two-thirds of Yemen’s girls are married ...

An upstate New York father and his adult son have been convicted of confining their daughter and sister for 16 months, with ...

She was born in Yemen and grew up there until she moved to Lackawanna as a child with her family ... still thought her father would agree to her marriage to the Mexican man as long as they ...

However, the court later dropped the kidnapping charge, convicting the man only of rape and sentencing him to 15 years in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Lackawanna father and son were convicted by a federal jury of a kidnapping conspiracy after they ...