Timely intervention from a UNICEF-supported social worker stopped Farima, 12, from being forced into child marriage in Afghanistan. But foreign aid funding cuts are undermining the services that ...

A 45-year old man in Afghanistan got married to a six-year old, but when the Taliban administration found out, they instructed him to wait till the girl turns nine before bringing her home, according ...

A six-year-old girl has allegedly been forced to marry a 45-year-old man in southern Afghanistan after her father sold her for money. According to US-based Afghan outlet Amu.tv, the marriage occurred ...

Forced into marriage at 14 in Afghanistan, Roya Karimi has defied all odds to become a European bodybuilding champion. Escaping to Norway, she rebuilt ...

Afghanistan is now the only country in the world where girls are prohibited from going to school beyond the primary level.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, December 5 (UNHCR) - When her abusive, drug addict father told Zakia* that she must marry a man twice her age, the then 15-year-old was despondent. But after the Afghan refugee ...