Meet Miriam, who was married at 13 and pregnant at 15. Dec. 16, 2011 — -- It's hard to imagine this: children married before their teenage years. And when little girls get pregnant, having a baby ...
Timely intervention from a UNICEF-supported social worker stopped Farima, 12, from being forced into child marriage in Afghanistan. But foreign aid funding cuts are undermining the services that ...
A six-year-old girl has allegedly been forced to marry a 45-year-old man in southern Afghanistan after her father sold her for money. According to US-based Afghan outlet Amu.tv, the marriage occurred ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, December 5 (UNHCR) - When her abusive, drug addict father told Zakia* that she must marry a man twice her age, the then 15-year-old was despondent. But after the Afghan refugee ...