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Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)
June 5, 2018, 9:23 am
Why New Jersey’s Orthodox stalled a bill banning child marriages
Bid to prevent the possibility of forced marriage looks set to pass, despite concerns in Haredi community that it could disrupt traditional Sephardi practice of marrying young
By Ben Sales
Illustrative photo of Sudanese women on April 11, 201 in Khartoum, Sudan. (AP /Mosa'ab Elshamy)
May 11, 2018, 4:43 am
Sudan teen bride sentenced to death for killing husband during alleged rape
Rights groups and supporters outraged by death penalty for Noura Hussein, rally outside courtroom and online
By AP
A view of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, with the city of Beersheba in the background (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 5, 2017, 3:13 pm
Bedouin man suspected of forcibly marrying, raping Palestinian girl
14-year-old in protective custody in Israel after reportedly walking up to Border Police in Hebron and asking for their help
By TOI staff
Iranian school-girls attend President Hassan Rouhani's speech to parliament before presenting the proposed annual budget in the capital Tehran, on January 17, 2016. (AFP / ATTA KENARE)
February 5, 2016, 5:08 am
Rising number of Iranian girls as young as 10 forced to marry
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child urges Tehran to repeal legislation permitting child sex abuse
By AFP
This photo taken from video released by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network on Monday May 12, 2014 shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. photo credit: AP)
April 14, 2015, 7:58 am
UN condemns extremists’ use of rape, sexual slavery
Report details increase in sexual terror tactics, singles out Boko Haram for abducting 276 students in Nigeria
By Edith M. Lederer
Fighters from Islamic State parade in Raqqa, northern Syria in 2014. (AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)
December 23, 2014, 12:26 pm
Women excised from public life by Islamic State
Jihadists force females to wear full-body robes, curtail their freedom of movement and study
By Zeina Karam
Executive Director of the Immigrant Women's Health Service Eman Sharobeem, Australia. (screen capture:YouTube/60Minutes9)
December 2, 2014, 9:09 am
Australia probing report of 9-year-old taken to Mideast to marry
Authorities increasingly concerned for the fate of young girls taken abroad to forced marriages
By AFP
An illustrative photo of marriage (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
October 30, 2013, 7:31 pm
Committee passes bill to raise marriage age to 18
Knesset panel rejects proposal to allow underage marriages with approval from High Rabbinical Court and social worker
By Spencer Ho
11-year-old Nada Al-Ahdal, who ran away from home to avoid a forced marriage, makes a video plea, in Yemen, July 8, 2013 (photo credit: screenshot via YouTube/MEMRI)
August 22, 2013, 3:18 am
Yemeni girl video reaches millions
11-year-old Nada Al-Ahdal tells of running away from home to avoid a forced marriage
By Yoel Goldman
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