While the issue of child marriages has come to prominence in Europe since the 2015 migrant crisis, it has recently made headlines in the U.S. after the Associated Press uncovered more than 8,000 cases of the American immigration system being used to attempt to facilitate marriages between adults and children.
A Swedish appeals court has confirmed a conviction against the parents of a 13-year-old Syrian girl for attempting to marry her off to a 24-year-old man, while the child’s intended husband has been found not guilty.
More details have been revealed about a child bride from South Sudan who was sold through Facebook, which the social network only took action on two weeks after the auction post had been made. The girl, now 17, is reportedly the man’s ninth wife.
Facebook allowed a child bride to be sold to the highest bidder before the social network finally decided to take action against the post over two weeks later, according to charity organization Plan International, which called the Facebook auction “beyond belief.”
Nearly 1,200 forced marriage cases were logged by the government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) last year, new data shows, with the body saying the number “may not reflect the full scale of the abuse.”
The Swedish parliament has voted to stop recognising child marriages despite parties from the government, including the Social Democrats, seeking some exemptions.
Swedish authorities allowed a pregnant 14-year-old asylum seeker to live with her 25-year-old “husband” for months until he was later arrested for raping the young girl.
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday plans to agree a ban on child marriages after the recent mass refugee influx brought in many couples where one or both partners were aged under 18.
Swedish prosecutors have dropped a case involving a man who married an underage girl in Syria and got her pregnant at 13 or 14-years-old because the crime took place abroad. The allegations of child rape were brought to the prosecutor
Turkey’s ruling party has dropped a controversial proposed law which would see child rapists pardoned if they married their victims while it undertakes a consultation on the proposal.
Child brides as young as 14 are being reunited with their older, migrant husbands in Denmark after immigration services claimed that upholding Danish law breached their “human rights”.
A bloody family dispute involving a 14-year-old Syrian girl married to her cousin is currently the subject of a trial in Kassel.
The trend of underage migrant girls entering Germany married to older men is on the rise, with the city of Berlin recording 100 child marriages this year alone.
Close to 9,000 migrant children are missing in Germany and police fear that many of them will be exploited by organised criminal gangs.
The German region of North Rhine-Westphalia has seen 188 marriages of migrants who are underage, some as young as 14, as calls grow for the government to stop the practice.
A regional German court has recognised as valid the marriage of a 14-year-old Syrian girl to her 20-year-old cousin, despite the legal age for marriage in Germany being 16. The case represents a landmark ruling, with the Federal Court set
An Afghan family has asked for help finding their ten-year-old daughter after a group of men kidnapped her four months ago.
Official figures have shown that last year dozens of married child brides arrived as migrants applying for asylum in Norway, with the youngest being just 11 years old. Data from the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufdir) seen by the Norwegian Broadcasting
A court in the northern Nigerian state of Kano recently dismissed the charges against a 14-year-old girl who killed her 35-year-old husband and three of his friends with rat poison.
Saudi Arabia Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh announced there is “nothing wrong” with girls under the age of 15 getting married
