The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has addressed the UN Human Rights Council highlighting key women's rights issues during the council's session that reviewed the human rights situation in Iraq. Iraq ...

Hira Bibi, a 47-year-old rag picker and former child bride from a Bhubaneswar slum, has become a local hero by preventing six ...

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

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

A number too enormous to count, is probably pretty accurate to describe the number of ‘child brides’ who are sold into marriage, all around the world, every single day. In fact, in the time it took ...

IF YOU have been reading this column or followed my tenure in the New Hampshire State Senate, then you know that I care ...

In Syria’s vast northeastern areas, a brittle arrangement has for years held together an uneasy coexistence between the Arab ...

Legislation to restrict marriage for Missouri residents under age 18 had been stalled by Republican critics for years. The ...

In a deeply disturbing case emerging from southern Afghanistan, a six-year-old girl was allegedly sold and forced into ...

Just a few decades ago, women in the Middle East had an average of seven children each. Now they're barely having enough ...

Iraq’s top court will resume work after nine judges returned following the retirement of its president. The Supreme Judicial ...

The F word makes its debut at the lexicon of presidential press conferences The USA was compelled to detonate uranium and plutonium bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August ...