May 27, 2009Afghan women fight onIn the troubled east and south of Afghanistan, Taliban are burning girls’ schools and throwing acid in the […]
May 27, 2009Girl kidnapped by parents refuses to testify against themA Moroccan girl who was reportedly kidnapped by her family has refused to testify against them, a Barcelona, […]
May 27, 2009UK man jailed for raping teenage brideA man has been jailed for five years for raping his teenage bride who was trapped and unhappy […]
May 21, 2009Mother sentenced to 3 years for forced marriages in UKA Muslim woman who forced her teenage daughters to marry cousins in Pakistan was sentenced Thursday to three […]
May 20, 2009Rotterdam testing plan against forced marriagesThe city council of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has started a trial to prevent girls from being forced into […]
May 17, 2009Women’s Rights Activist Named Afghanistan’s Person Of The YearRadio Free Afghanistan has named Anarkali Honaryar, a 25-year-old dentist and women’s rights activist, as its Person of […]
May 16, 2009Society “must act to prevent forced marriages”British Member of Parliament Sayeeda Warsi has urged heightened vigilance against forced marriages and “honor” violence. via:[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/05/16/society-must-act-to-prevent-forced-marriages-91466-23635939/]
April 30, 2009Saudi official grants girl, 8, divorceFaisal bin Bandar, prince of Saudi Arabia’s Qassim Province, has granted an 8-year-old girl a divorce from her […]
April 27, 2009Danish politicians unite against forced marriagesA majority in Denmark’s Parliament is prepared to crack down on imams who perform forced and unregistered Muslim […]
April 17, 2009Spanish court sentences mother in forced marriage case of daughterA Spanish court has sentenced a Mauritanian to 17 years in prison after she allegedly forced her underage […]
April 15, 2009Saudis ‘to regulate’ child bridesSaudi Arabia says it plans to start regulating the marriage of young girls, amid controversy over a union […]
April 14, 2009‘Honour’ culture common in StockholmMore than 4,000 teenagers in Stockholm are exposed on a daily basis to cultures of honour that involve […]
April 8, 2009In Denmark, minority youths fear honour crimeThe number of minority youths who seek help because of family threats has almost quadrupled since 2005. “Most […]
March 31, 2009Naseebah Bibi ‘forced daughters-in-law to work as slaves’A mother-in-law kept her sons’ wives imprisoned for up to 13 years, forcing them to work as slaves, […]
March 27, 2009India: Rape Victim Converts to Islam to Marry AccusedAn Indian rape victim has told a city court that she wants to marry her violator in order […]
March 15, 2009Hannah Shah: “My imam father came after me with an axe”Hannah Shah had been raped by her father and faced a forced marriage. She fled, became a Christian […]
December 6, 2008Abu Ghanem women break silence over ‘honour killings’The Abu Ghanem clan has lost another of its women, the ninth in eight years killed for supposedly […]
November 21, 2008Forced marriage cases up by 80pc this year as investigators find parents using ‘bounty hunters’The number of forced marriages being investigated in Britain has risen by 80 per cent this year with […]
March 26, 2008Many Muslims in Lodi, CA Turn to Home SchoolingLike dozens of other Pakistani-American girls in Lodi, California, Hajra Bibi stopped attending the local public school when […]
November 25, 2007Parents force daughters to fly home to Pakistan for arranged marriagesIt’s a well-kept secret in Pakistani homes across New York city: Young women violently forced to return to […]