She left Afghanistan as a teenage mother. Now bodybuuilding champion Roya Karimi has a message for the Taliban.

A young woman who endured years of horrific domestic abuse was sentenced to death in a trial that has been criticised by ...

Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a ...

12 year old Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef dies in childbirth after 3 days of labor. DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

PARIS (AFP) — Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira ...

Human rights groups and others have condemned the execution of a woman in Iran who was found guilty of killing the man she was forced to marry as a child. Amnesty International said it "is horrified ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's state human rights body has hired a lawyer to review the case of a girl whose mother sought her divorce from an 80-year-old man, a move activists hope ...

Goli Kouhkan, now 25, was on death row in Iran's Gorgan central prison for seven years. She was arrested at 18 for allegedly ...

Rana Faraj-oghli had been arrested two years earlier and sentenced to death following legal proceedings that activists say fell short of basic fair-trial guarantees.

Goli Kouhkan was forced into marriage with cousin at 12, gave birth at 13 and was abused for years; she's spared execution ...