“We are born free, and when somebody takes your freedom, I know the pain,” Roya Karimi told NBC News. LONDON — Onstage, wearing a small, sparkling bikini, Roya Karimi projects an image of strength as ...

Child marriage has long been a problem in Afghanistan. A 2021 UNICEF report estimated that 28% of Afghan women aged 15–49 years were married before the age of 18. A new decree issued by the Taliban's ...

She's had to flee Afghanistan for her life. And she's one of many whose experience offers a window into what the Taliban takeover may hold for the... The Taliban Swore To Kill An Afghan Doctor For ...

A 45-year-old man has married a six-year-old girl, in an act so unsettling that it even left the Taliban 'horrified'. The man, who has already wed two other women, bought the child from her family.

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Six-year-old Farzana was a child bride, pledged by her father to a 13-year-old boy for a sum equivalent to approximately $60. After repeated appeals from Farzana's mother, tribal chiefs intervened and ...