In a significant legal victory against forced conversions/marriages in Pakistan, a civil court has annulled the marriage of a ...

Shahida Bibi, a Christian woman in Pakistan, was cleared last month to leave her forced marriage to a Muslim and return to her faith and family. Bibi’s mother eloped with a Muslim man when she was 11 ...

A civil court in Pakistan s Punjab province has annulled the forced marriage of a Christian girl who had been subjected to ...

Last November, Sisters in Islam called on the government to take decisive action against child marriages or risk failing in its commitments to children and international human rights standards.

Many Muslims see marriage as an essential part of life ... the Aqiqah ceremony takes place when the parents choose a Muslim name for their child. Jewish It's very similar for Jews.

Despite progress in reducing the prevalence of this phenomenon, a recent UN report places Bangladesh as a topper in child marriage in Asia and 8th globally ...

The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is set to send the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2019 to ...

For marriage among non-Muslim men and women ... strategic plan before a final decision on the new plan is made. Child activist and Yayasan Chow Kit founder Datuk Dr Hartini Zainudin said research ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is expected to send the draft Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2019 to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for its opinion before proceedi ...