Nujood Ali, a former child bride in Yemen, demonstrates outside parliament in San'a, Yemen, on March 23 in support of proposed legislation banning the marriage of girls under 17. Ali was granted a ...

A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday. Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in ...

Al Nahar, Lebanon, has reported that an eight-year-old child bride died in Yemen on her wedding night after suffering internal injuries due to sexual trauma.

She endured two miscarriages within twelve months, before Noora delivered a son called Ihab - all by the age of 13. A ...

SAN'A, Yemen — Some of Yemen's most influential Islamic leaders, including one the U.S. says mentored Osama bin Laden, have declared supporters of a ban on child brides to be apostates. The religious ...

A 13-year-old Yemeni girl who bled to death shortly after marriage was tied down and forced to have sex by her husband, according to the child's mother, police and medical ...

Some of Yemen's most influential Islamic leaders have declared supporters of a ban on child brides to be apostates.

Yemeni child bride Nujood Ali took the standagainst her husband in court, and was granted a historic divorce," said a statement about her award, presented at a ceremony in New York.