TAG: Human rights

In Indonesia, a former child bride pushes back, seeks change. Voice of America reporters around the world focused on the worth...

Estrella was in the sixth grade when Hendrin insisted, with the urgency of young love, that they spend the rest of their lives...

After refusing to marry, Mwanahamisi Abdallah sought help and now champions female empowerment. Voice of America reporters...

At 16, Shaima married a man 12 years her senior to ease her parents’ money troubles. Soon after her marriage, her husband...

At 13½, Orkida Driza knew little of marriage but understood family obligations as a member of Albania’s Egyptian minority. Hers...

VOA reporters around the world focused on the worth of a girl to reveal how a young bride is valued by two families: the one...

VOA reporters around the world focused on the worth of a girl to reveal how a young bride is valued by two families: the one...

Growing up in a family of clerics in northwest Nigeria, which has the country’s highest prevalence of child marriage, Khadijah...

Since childhood, Mahi dreamed of being an actress. But by 11, over her vehement objections, she was betrothed to someone she...

With lenders “pressing hard” on her widowed mother, 11-year-old Babogai went from a childhood selling firewood and paper to...

As Sultan Tümerdem approaches her sixth decade, she says she is “very happy” with her life, her husband and two sons. A...

At 16, Shaima married a man 12 years her senior to ease her parents’ money troubles. Soon after her marriage, her husband...