This article draws on 'Justice, Inequality and Gender-Based Violence project' (ESRC-funded, Grant Number ES/M010090/1; PI Professor Marianne Hester) In the four years since a change in the law ...

With the rise of violent extremist groups such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and ISIS in the Middle East, horrific descriptions of young girls being kidnapped and forced to marry militants have made ...

LONDON — A woman in Britain has been jailed for forcing her young daughter to marry a man in Pakistan in the first successful forced marriage prosecution in England. The victim, now 19 and who cannot ...

JUBA, South Sudan The 17-year-old beaten to death for refusing to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather. The teen dragged by her family to be raped to force her into marrying an elderly man.

LONDON — A woman in Britain was sentenced to four and a half years in prison Wednesday for forcing her teenage daughter to marry a relative in Pakistan almost twice her age. The sentence follows the ...

Devastating footage from the north-central China province of Gansu shows a beautiful bride bawling at her wedding because she’s being forced to marry a man she barely knows, AsiaWire T4 reports. The ...

In the 21st century there are still countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe that have policies where women who are raped are then forced to marry the perpetrator. What people tend to ...

A man in India has claimed he was kidnapped, threatened and forced to marry a woman against his own will. Authorities in India's eastern Bihar state were looking into the kidnapping of 29-year-old ...

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. As President Barack Obama was preparing for his 2012 ...

Bhopal: A 17-year-old orphan girl endured months of captivity, repeated rapes and a forced abortion after a neighbour ...

LiAngelo Ball's brief marriage to Rashida Nicole, ending less than a year after their March 2025 wedding, has taken a dramatic turn. Ball revealed on a podcast he felt forced into the marriage and ...