Hira Bibi, a 47-year-old rag picker and former child bride from a Bhubaneswar slum, has become a local hero by preventing six child marriages in the last four years. Driven by her own painful ...

Five children playing soccer in Taiz province were killed after an explosive detonated in the area, tearing up their bodies.

There are today more than 650 million women suffering the direct consequences of child marriage. Global instability - war and ...

A 45-year-old man married a six-year-old girl in Afghanistan, causing outrage over child marriage under Taliban rule. Despite ...

Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched a violent new wave of attacks on ships in the Red Sea, sinking two vessels and killing ...

The public prosecutor in Yemen has signed the order regarding Nimisha Priya's death sentence, which has been shared with the ...

The Scottish Government is looking at increasing the age over concerns about ‘child marriages’ fuelling abuse.

Baha'i repression, which includes forced deportations, family separations, denial of marriage licenses and public school ...

The Baha’i faith fits comfortably into the religious spectrum of most countries, but in several Middle East nations, ...

Yemen is party to a number of international treaties and conventions that explicitly prohibit child marriage and commit states parties to take measures to eliminate the practice.

Child marriage is an internationally recognized human rights violation Marriage before age 18 robs girls of their childhood and threatens their well-being.

In 1999 Yemen’s parliament abolished article 15 of Yemen’s Personal Status Law, which set the minimum age for marriage at 15 for boys and girls, citing religious reasons.