カテゴリー: Forced marriage
Educators working in extremely challenging conditions in Lebanon, Niger, Ukraine and Afghanistan explain what drives them onMohamad El Dirany, 24 Continue reading…
Afghanistan’s ‘morality police’ arrested Samira at work in Kabul – and then made the 19-year-old marry her employerIt was a normal summer morning in July last year when 19-year-old Samira* made her way to the carpet-weaving shop where she worked in Kab…
Despite a ban on ‘ghag’ forced marriages, a man laid claim to Inteha when she was 12 years old. Now she lives in fear as her family fights for her right to marry the man of her choiceInteha Bibi’s happiest moment was her engagement last year. Everyone …
As the Taliban denies women access to any schooling, there has been a rise in students being married off to ease family povertyIt is six weeks since the Taliban closed the door on girls’ education across Afghanistan and Zeina’s last vestiges of hope fo…
Six men arrested after Pakistani-Spanish women tricked into travelling to Gujrat where they were shotTwo sisters with dual Pakistani and Spanish citizenship were allegedly killed by their husbands, uncle and brother in a so-called “honour” killing a da…
People are losing their homes, their freedom and their hope. That should be more of a priority than US credibility“There’s going to be no circumstance where you’ll see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan…
As horror stories emerge from areas that have fallen to the Islamist militants, women living alone fear they have no route of escapeThere’s an old saying in Afghanistan that encapsulates the country’s views on divorce: “A woman only leaves her father’s…
Families fearful of what will happen to girls and young women as the Islamist militants gain ground are joining the tens of thousands of displaced AfghansIt was an exceptionally hot summer morning, on 13 July, when people in Malistan district, in the s…
At 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands of others and call for free educationPriyanka Bairwa was 15 when her family, began to look for a husband for her. The pandemic sped up the pro…
Rights groups warn that children across the world are being pushed into abusive situations, from early marriage to child labour Across the world 800 million children are still not fully back in school, Unicef is warning, with many at risk of never retu…
Criticism follows release of 29-year-old who kept girl chained in cattle pen, in latest case highlighting abuses of religious minoritiesThe family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after alle…