Since 2018, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have ended child marriage by raising the legal age for marriage to 18.

Deadly clashes between local residents and a gold mining company in northern Afghanistan have left four people dead and five ...

Parastoo Theatre has wrapped up operations, leaving a lasting mark on Malaysia's theatre and refugee communities ...

In 2025, Afghan women and girls faced widespread exclusion from education and work, worsening poverty, limiting economic ...

An Afghan woman and her three children were found dead in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth area, prompting a police investigation into the ...

From Sudan to Honduras many millions of people are suffering and dying in crises that receive relatively little international ...

It is an uncomfortable but undeniable fact that the United States government was complicit in child trafficking during Operation Allies Refuge, the evacuation mission that began in July of 2021 when ...

A woman who was once a child bride in Afghanistan escaped, along with her infant son, and found her way years later to winning third place at a bodybuilding competition, representing Norway. NBC News’ ...

EXCLUSIVE: Afghan evacuees with rap sheets that include convictions for sexual battery and lewd acts with a minor and arrests for alleged child-fondling and terror-group support were among the "worst ...

The United States' 20-year attempt to stand up democracy in Afghanistan descended into a cesspool of corruption and squandered as much as $29.2 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in pursuit of ...

The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving served in an elite CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, according to ...

The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require significant reforms. On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the ...