NEW DELHI – Actress Rukhsar Rehman, known for her memorable roles in Uri: The Surgical Strike, PK, and Sarkar, recently opened up about a deeply personal chapter of her life—fleeing a forced marriage ...

It was late winter, and Motty was the fourth man I’d met in person over the last few months — out of the dozens I’d chatted with since the fall — in an online chatroom while still in my Hasidic ...

For many brides, their wedding day is filled with happiness, but for 15-year-old Rubie, it turned into a living nightmare when she was forced to marry a man twice her age. Raised in Wales, Rubie was ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Blood dripped down the 16-year-old girl's face after another beating by her drug-addict husband. Worn down by life's pain, she ran to the kitchen, doused herself with gas from a ...

Stakeholders at a one-day national dialogue on “Ending Child Marriage” hosted by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, with support from the United Nations Population Fund ...

UNICEF USA is working with partners including Unchained at Last to end child marriage in the United States. Eleven U.S. states have already passed legislation banning marriage before the age of 18, ...

Under international law, forced marriage has emerged as its own form of gendered violence, distinct from sex-related crimes — a phenomenon explored in depth in a report released last month by the ...