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Those most at risk are very young women, barely out of childhood. Around 700 million women worldwide were married before they turned 18. In south asia, one in two girls are child brides. And in africa and latin america child marriages are commonplace. That figure is 12 in kyrgyzstan, a country that also has a particularly extreme version of forced marriage bride abduction. In weddings in kyrgyzstan can be lavish affairs. City hall in the capital bishkek is known as the wedding palace and it lives up to its name. Miriam and asamat are getting married today. Their parents have organized and paid...

Those most at risk are very young women, barely out of childhood. Around 700 million women worldwide were married before they turned 18. In south asia, one in two girls are child brides. And in africa and latin america child marriages are commonplace. That figure is 12 in kyrgyzstan, a country that also has a particularly extreme version of forced marriage bride abduction. In weddings in kyrgyzstan can be lavish affairs. City hall in the capital bishkek is known as the wedding palace and it lives up to its name. Miriam and asamat are getting married today. Their parents have organized and paid...

The appointment of a logging executive with ties to former president and war criminal Charles Taylor has drawn fierce criticism by local environmental groups.

Walter Rodney would have been 82 on Saturday 23 March 2024 if his life was not cut short in an assassination on June 13, 1980, by dark forces of African and Black's underdevelopment who saw him as one of their fiercest critics. He was 38.

The Government of Liberia with the support of the Kingdom of Norway and the World Bank is organizing a high-level Forest and Climate Resilience Forum, on February 2-3, 2023. The purpose of this Forum is to catalyze renewed commitments and strengthen partnerships in sustainable forest management as a key strategy supporting Liberia’s Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD).