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Underage Rohingya girls experienced abuse in arranged marriages in Malaysia. Underage Rohingya girls experienced abuse in arranged marriages in Malaysia, which feels like a prison for the 14-year-old girl who was raped by her 35-year-old husband nearly every night.

'I really want to be a Catholic nun.'

Underage Rohingya girls experienced abuse in arranged marriages in Malaysia. Underage Rohingya girls experienced abuse in arranged marriages in Malaysia, which feels like a prison for the 14-year-old girl who was raped by her 35-year-old husband nearly every night.

Manahil Mohamed came from Sudan eight years ago alongside her mother and siblings.

More than 750 years ago, Sufi saint Syed Baba Abdul Razzaq founded the village of Baba Wayil in Kashmir to spread Islam's teachings. Today, the village rejects lavish weddings and dowries, opting for simple ceremonies. This change has led to positive social reforms, with early marriages and financial burdens reduced. However, this progressive approach is still rare in Kashmir, where extravagant weddings persist, contributing to a crisis of delayed marriages and increasing unmarried youth. T...

Teenage pregnancies, domestic violence jeopardising lives of gypsy women

Ms Alupo urged men to respect, guide and keep girls in school until they graduate.

Qabale Duba, 32 was the winner of the first-ever Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award.

The beginning of the academic calendar is always an agonising time for Kenyan parents.

BEYOND THE DATA. Lisa Grace Bersales (right), newly appointed Commission on Population and Development executive director, conducts a briefing on her first day in office on Monday (Jan. 16, 2023). She emphasized the importance of going around and getting to know the facts and faces behind the statistics. (Courtesy of POPCOM) MANILA - The newly appointed executive director of the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has vowed to go further beyond collecting data by getting to know th...