"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

Courtney Stodden is looking back at a traumatic time in her adolescence. On Wednesday, May 20, the model, 31, took to Instagram to share a photo from her wedding day with her ex-husband Doug ...

Hanifeh Avandi, a 24-year-old Turkish woman from Tabriz, was reportedly executed in Iran on Sunday, April 19, amid claims she ...

She was sentenced to death under qisas, the Islamic legal principle of 'retaliation in kind'.

Venezuela Fury, 16, and husband Noah, 19, have been inundated with trolls on social media since tying the knot earlier this ...

Teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh resist child marriage, empowered by frontline workers, aiming for education and social change.

Part of Lifetime’s “Ripped From the Headlines” series, a collection of films based on real people, “I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story” follows the life of a 16-year-old starlet whose ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

Narrated by Courtney Stodden herself, “I Was a Child Bride: The Courtney Stodden Story,” premieres today, Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m. Eastern. The Lifetime original film is also available to watch ...