Child marriage in Afghanistan, already widespread, has grown more severe under the Taliban’s ban on female education and ...

In Afghanistan, climate change drives an uptick in child marriage Reports suggest a spike in such marriages, spurred in part by the effects of drought on the agrarian country ...

16,000 children married in Florida. Florida is among the US states with the highest rates of child marriage – between 2011 and 2015, more than 16,000 children under the age of 18 married in Florida.

A 45-year-old man who married a six-year-old girl shocked the Taliban with his abhorrent wedding ceremony, with the militant ...

A 45-year-old groom allegedly married a six-year-old girl in Afghanistan in a wedding that left even the Taliban “horrified”.

Parwana is one of many young Afghan girls sold into marriage as the country’s humanitarian crisis deepens. Hunger has pushed some families to make heartbreaking decisions, especially as the ...

Kabul, Afghanistan -- When asked about her engagement party this summer, Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit -- a speechless response not out ...

Child marriage in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a traditional way of arranging marriages that is centuries old. Two children are married and then sent back to live with their parents until puberty.