Child bride

Femicide in Iran: Child bride beaten to death by husband with wooden stick, rights org. says

Maryam Taghavi, 16, was reportedly beaten with a wooden stick so severely that she needed to be transferred to the Khomeini Hospital in Ajabshir, where she died hours later from her injuries.

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People participate in a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran and the death of Mahsa Amini in New York City, New York, U.S., September 27, 2022.
MEMBERS OF the Iranian diaspora in Europe take part in a rally in Brussels last September, marking the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini.

Child bride forced to pay abusive husband's family blood money or Iran will execute her

Forced to marry at 12 years old, sources told IranWire her husband began physically and emotionally abusing her after she refused to become pregnant a second time.

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A model presents a creation by designers Sebastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant as part of their Spring/Summer 2025 Women's ready-to-wear collection show for fashion brand Coperni during Paris Fashion Week at the theme park Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, near Paris, France, October 1, 2024.

British sex offender charged over ‘mock’ wedding with nine-year-old at Disneyland Paris

The 9-year-old Ukrainian girl was brought to France only to days before the wedding.

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Parents attempt to honor kill teenage daughter in Washington after refusing arranged marriage

The teenage girl was choked by her parents outside her school in Washington, for reportedly refusing to travel to Iraq to marry an older man.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Divorced Afghan child brides forced to return to former husbands under Taliban rule

The BBC, following the case of Bibi Nazdana, reported that the Taliban is invalidating divorces granted by the Afghan court - forcing divorced child brides to return to their previous marital status.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Afghan girl stands near her house that was damaged by an earthquake in Kalizei village in the Gayan district of Paktika province, Afghanistan, June 26, 2022.

Iranian regime women's affairs vice president supports child marriage

"Khazali should have found a solution to end child abuse in Iran instead of promoting child marriage."

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A just-married Iranian couple walks past other couples attending a mass wedding celebration at Azadi Sport Centre in Tehran February 27, 2002 where about 900 people tied the knot.

Brooklyn Hasidic rabbi under investigation for promoting child marriage

While the US State Department has declared them a human rights violation, child marriages are currently still legal in at least 13 US states.

MARCH 27, 2021BySHIRA HANAU/JTA
An illustration of a bride and groom during a Civil marriage outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, December 9, 2020.

Young Pakistani activist fights forced child marriage

Hadiqa Bashir works in Swat Valley, until recently a Pakistani Taliban stronghold.

FEBRUARY 20, 2021ByARSHAD MEHMOOD / THE MEDIA LINE
Hadiqa Bashir, 19, has been actively working against early and forced marriages for the last eight years in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, once a hotbed of the Pakistani Taliban.

PA outlaws child marriage

Government of Mohammad Shtayyeh raises the minimum age of consent to 18

NOVEMBER 15, 2019ByDIMA ABUMARIA/ THE MEDIA LINE
Newly married Tala Soboh, 14, and her 15-year-old husband Ahmed walk on the beach two days after their marriage in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip September 26, 2013. The newlyweds live in the family's three-room home, sharing it with nine relatives. Ahmed works with his father a

Palestinian Authority outlaws child marriage

Mohammad Shtayyeh's government raises minimum age of consent to 18.

NOVEMBER 15, 2019ByDIMA ABUMARIA/ THE MEDIA LINE
Meanwhile in India: Krishna, then 14, sits with her baby Alok outside her house in a village near Baran in 2013. Krishna married her husband Gopal when she was 11 and he was 13; India's legal age for marriage is 18, but marriages like these are common, especial in poor, rural areas.

In Indonesia, 'bride kidnapping' tradition fuels child marriage despite new ban

The government raised the marriage age for girls from 16 to 19 in September, but rights groups fear deep-rooted traditions and the practice of not registering unions could hamper efforts.

OCTOBER 31, 2019ByREUTERS
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WATCH: Iranian man marries 11-year-old girl

Two days after the marriage, a prosecutor annulled the marriage and said he was indicting the mullah (officiant) and the girl's parents for an illegal underaged marriage.

OCTOBER 22, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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