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Pakistan News: Women and children in Pakistan's religious minority communities are vulnerable to forced religious conversion and marriage, as well as sexual assault

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Human Rights Watch says spike in forced marriages after Taliban stormed to power in 2021

Lack of will and absence of resources mean the state is unable to provide protection

A database tracking incidents of violent religious persecution worldwide has been launched by Global Christian Relief, a U.S.-based group monitoring Christian persecution. The Violent Incidents Database stands as the first and only events-based global religious freedom dataset of its kind.

Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and at Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages.

The union Unite says 100 per cent of staff who voted supported industrial action

Story at a glance At age 14, Genevieve Meyer began spending time with a neighbor to get a break from her hectic home life. Her relationship with the neighbor, a 42-year-old divorced father of two, soon turned sexual. Meyer’s mother eventually found out, and she called the police. But she believed that Meyer had “ruined…

Child Marriages in Latin America persists at an alarming rate as 1 in every 5 girls gets married or enters a de facto union before turning 18

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