A generation free from child marriage begins with each and every one of us
Real Open Opportunities for Transformation Support (ROOTS), an organisation based in Bindura, have added their voice to the fight against early and forced marriages in Zimbabwe. The launch of their...
View ArticleCulture or crime?
The ‘ukuthwala’ tradition of forced marriage continues to destroy young girls’ lives but some parents are fighting back by sending their daughters to safety far from home. As soon as their daughters...
View ArticleA forced bride: ‘We survive for each day’
When Lamung Bawk Din, 26, jumped out of her husband’s second-storey window, she had only one thought in her mind: “If I stay here any longer, I will go crazy.” This happened in 2008, and Bawk Din was...
View ArticleDNA test shows minor victim was forced to marry ‘wrong’ accused
Test shows father of her child to be arrested man in custody, while second accused whom she married is absconding in Saudi. The child born to a minor victim, who was allegedly gang-raped in June 2012...
View ArticleImam sentenced to prison after 16-year-old girl denounces she was forced to...
An imam has been sentenced by the courts for performing a marriage ceremony without using state papers and regulations in the eastern province of Bitlis. A 16-year-old girl, identified by local...
View ArticleYouth arrested in honour killing case
Muzaffarnagar: A youth has been arrested for allegedly killing her sister in an honour killing case here, police said Tuesday. The accused identified as Intazar, was arrested yesterday after he...
View ArticleMan smothers daughter to death in honour killing
THE reported suicide of a 16-year-old girl in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, after she eloped with a youth has turned out to be a case of honour killing, Makkal Osaireported. Police arrested her father...
View ArticleHonour killing in Nalgonda
A teenaged woman, who married against the wishes of her parents, was hacked to death by her father at Ganugugonda of Tungaturthy mandal on Saturday morning, in what is being described as a case of...
View ArticleHonour Killing Claims 19-yr-old Girl
NALGONDA: Two incidents of murder occurred in the district on Friday and Saturday: in the first incident, armed robbers killed a woman during a house burglary in Bibinagar town on Friday night, while...
View ArticleFilm details Irving shooting involving father, 2 daughters
Jill Abplanalp hopes a documentary on the slayings of her two nieces in 2008 will lead to the capture of their father who has been on the run from federal and local authorities for six years. Capital...
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