Two sisters in an Indian village talk about how football has changed their lives and helped them push back against child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An upstate New York father and his adult son have been convicted in a kidnapping and forced marriage plot involving their daughter ...

In a significant legal victory against forced conversions/marriages in Pakistan, a civil court has annulled the marriage of a Christian woman who was given to a Muslim man as a child and coerced to ...

LONDON — Britain investigated 400 cases of forced marriages last year and is also looking into whether some girls who have vanished from school registers were taken out of schools to be married ...

It was that terrible moment when Michael El-Bacha wanted to end it all, feeling he was better off taking his own life. The tumultuous events that led up to his attempted suicide, and the way he has ...

Bihar witnesses a disturbing rise in 'pakadua vivah,' where men and boys are forced into marriage. Recent cases across districts like Samastipur and Patna involve students, teachers, and even minors ...

The evaluation shows a marked decline in child and early marriage among adolescent girls aged 18–22. The proportion of girls ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

About one out of every five marriages in Kyrgyzstan involve “bride kidnapping,” according to preliminary findings of a European Union study on gender equality in the Central Asian nation. The high ...

WAJIR, Kenya — A 17-year-old refugee girl was killed in a horrific incident in Wajir, a town in Kenya’s North Eastern region, after resisting a forced marriage to a 55-year-old man, authorities and ...