Delhi Police has informed Supreme Court that Russian embassy counsellor (head of consular division) Arthur Gerbst had ...

The costs associated with owning a home — insurance, property taxes, maintenance, utilities — are surging, causing younger ...

Hong Kong’s legislature voted down a proposed same-sex partnerships bill that would have seen the city become the fourth ...

Meet the woman who is helping to stop child marriages after almost being forced into marriage herself at just 14. Neha, 18, ...

The WKU School of Media and Communication will host photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair for a lecture about documenting human rights issues on Tuesday. The presentation will begin at 6 p.m. in the Jody ...

Begum, a Rohingya refugee, is relieved she married off one of her seven daughters before funding cuts closed her school and thousands of others in Bangladesh's cramped refugee camps, affecting nearly ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

KATHMANDU – The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has recommended the Nepal government to lower the current minimum age for marriage even as the ...

The mathematics lesson was in full swing when the hired vehicle pulled into the school compound. For Halima Dubow*, what seemed like an ordinary morning in Form Three was about to become the day that ...

Last April, Nepal became the first South Asian country to provisionally recognise same-sex marriage, and the second only to Taiwan in Asia. The Supreme Court ruling on Sunil Babu Pant and Others v ...

Building on a historic and hard-fought victory at national level that led the government to commit to increase education funding by nearly 15 billion Nepali rupees (around 96 million euros), 36 ...

LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Despite fierce opposition from Islamist groups in Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday (May 30) signed into law a ...