"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

She was sentenced to death under qisas, the Islamic legal principle of 'retaliation in kind'.

Courtney Stodden is looking back at a traumatic time in her adolescence. On Wednesday, May 20, the model, 31, took to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age 16, Courtney Stodden's marriage to a 51-year-old actor sent shockwaves across the country. Now, at age 31, Stodden says she ...

Hanifeh Avandi, a 24-year-old Turkish woman from Tabriz, was reportedly executed in Iran on Sunday, April 19, amid claims she ...

Teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh resist child marriage, empowered by frontline workers, aiming for education and social change.

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 ...

Crystal Kung Minkoff is clapping back at her “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” co-star Dorit Kemsley for calling her a “child bride.” Kung Minkoff, 40, took to Instagram Wednesday after the scene in ...

Dorit Kemsley thinks her “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” co-star Crystal Kung Minkoff was a “child bride” for marrying Rob Minkoff at the age of 24. In a sneak peek of Wednesday night’s episode of ...