Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a child, in a case that sparked international concern over the plight of women ...

A young woman who endured years of horrific domestic abuse was sentenced to death in a trial that has been criticised by ...

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 ...

Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira Sabzian, who had ...

A violent row between Goli and her husband led to his death in 2018. She was sentenced to death after she was pressured into ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's state human rights body has hired a lawyer to review the case of a girl whose mother sought her divorce from an 80-year-old man, a move activists hope ...

Human rights groups and others have condemned the execution of a woman in Iran who was found guilty of killing the man she was forced to marry as a child. Amnesty International said it "is horrified ...

QUETTA, 28 September, 2017: It is a fine evening. A group of Afghan women are enjoying traditional Afghan tea with Roghni (Afghan snacks) and white Afghan sweets. Everybody is happy as they gather to ...

12 year old Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef dies in childbirth after 3 days of labor. DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...