Forced marriage
- Afghanistan, Africa, Boko Haram, Children, Conflict and arms, Europe, Forced marriage, Global development, Global education, Israel, Lebanon, Mali, Middle East and North Africa, Niger, Nigeria, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Ukraine, World news
Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what …
- Afghanistan, Employment, Forced marriage, Global development, Global education, Human rights, Law, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
The Taliban made me marry my boss: how one word led to a forced marriage
Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her emp…
- Forced marriage, Global development, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘I’m not a toy’: how an antiquated tradition of forced marriage wrecked one girl’s life
Despite a ban on ‘ghag’ forced marriages, a man laid claim to Inteha when she was 12 years old. Now she lives …
- Afghanistan, Forced marriage, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Violence against women and girls, Women, Women's rights and gender equality
‘No escape’ for Afghan girls forced out of education and into early marriage
As the Taliban denies women access to any schooling, there has been a rise in students being married off to ea…
- Forced marriage, Global development, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Sisters allegedly murdered by husbands in Pakistan ‘honour’ killing
Six men arrested after Pakistani-Spanish women tricked into travelling to Gujrat where they were shotTwo siste…
- Afghanistan, Biden administration, Forced marriage, Joe Biden, South and Central Asia, Taliban, US foreign policy, US military, US news, Women
The Guardian view on the Taliban’s advance: not an American debacle but Afghans’ tragedy
People are losing their homes, their freedom and their hope. That should be more of a priority than US credibi…
- Afghanistan, Divorce, Forced marriage, Human rights, Law, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, World news
‘Nowhere to go’: divorced Afghan women in peril as the Taliban close in
As horror stories emerge from areas that have fallen to the Islamist militants, women living alone fear they h…
- Afghanistan, Forced marriage, Global development, Internally displaced people, Refugees, Sexual violence, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
‘I worry my daughters will never know peace’: women flee the Taliban – again
Families fearful of what will happen to girls and young women as the Islamist militants gain ground are joinin…
- Child marriage, Child rights, Children, Children's rights, Coronavirus, Dalits, Forced marriage, Gender, Global development, India, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘We can do anything’: the Indian girls’ movement fighting child marriage
At 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands …
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‘I miss school’: 800m children still not fully back in classes
Rights groups warn that children across the world are being pushed into abusive situations, from early marriag…
- Child marriage, Children, Forced marriage, Global development, Pakistan, Religion, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Family of girl, 12, forced to marry abductor condemn Pakistan authorities
Criticism follows release of 29-year-old who kept girl chained in cattle pen, in latest case highlighting abus…