According to UNICEF, child marriage is the "formal marriage or informal union before age 18", and it affects more girls than boys. In Afghanistan, up to 57% of...

Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, usually between a child and an adult, but can also be between a child and another...

In the United States, a child marriage is a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age—or the age of majority. The U.S. is the only...

2013. "Afghanistan: Child Marriage, Domestic Violence Harm Progress". Human Rights Watch. 4 September 2013. "Escaping Child Marriage in Afghanistan". UNFPA...

on Child Marriage in Afghanistan" (PDF). Medica Mondiale: 1–20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2014. "Afghanistan Has...

"MARRIAGE BY FORCE? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa" (PDF). Afghanistan: Child Marriage, Domestic Violence Harm Progress, 4 September 2013 "Kreet...

In May 2022, Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a decree banning Taliban members from taking multiple wives. Child marriage in Afghanistan Saikal...

Education in Afghanistan includes K–12 and higher education, which is under the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education. In 2021, there...

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet Union-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989...

purposes. In some areas of the world, arranged marriage, forced marriage, polygyny marriage, polyandry marriage, group marriage, coverture marriage, child marriage...

needed] Forced marriages, practised in some families, are condemned by the United Nations. The specific sub-category of forced child marriage is especially...

in Afghanistan. The proportion of consanguineous marriages in the country stands at 46.2%, with significant regional variations ranging from 38.2% in...

Islamic states including Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia in relation to freedom of marriage. In 2019, it was reported that there was a growing...

May 2022). "Afghanistan Poverty Bears More Child Brides". Voice of America. Retrieved 15 November 2022. "Armenia Raises Minimum Marriage Age to 18". Asbarez...

prostitution into Afghanistan. Afghan women are also trafficked to Pakistan, Iran and India for sexual exploitation. Child prostitution in the form of bacha...

boy with help of police. In Afghanistan, a similar custom is called Ba'ad, sometimes as Sawara. Child marriage Arranged marriage Watta satta Karo kari Baad...

underaged girls for sex is not covered by laws in Afghanistan but underage marriage, forced marriage, beating, rape, "baahd" (the giving of a female...

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024,[update] marriage between same-sex couples...

and the United Arab Emirates allow civil marriage for non-Muslims only, while in Kuwait, Bahrain and Afghanistan it is allowed for foreign citizens only...

Western Asia; Afghanistan in Central Asia; and Myanmar in South East Asia. The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child and others have...

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, was the Afghan state between 1978 and 1992. It was bordered by Pakistan...

abuse and exploitation. Child marriage is one of the main forms of child sexual abuse; UNICEF has stated that child marriage "represents perhaps the most...

Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced...

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was a presidential republic in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2021. The state was established to replace the Afghan interim (2001–2002)...

"some of the highest rates of consanguineous marriages in the world". The bint 'amm marriage, or marriage with one's father's brother's daughter (bint...

Bagher (8 August 2020). "Afghan Child Workers in Iran: Registered but still Trafficked". Iran Wire. "A report card: Iran and its Afghan children". The Guardian...

daughters are being sold into marriage and or for forced child labor for $850-2000 US dollars. According to Frank Dikötter, in 1953 or 1954, when there was...

Retrieved 2024-08-21. "Afghanistan". travel.state.gov. Retrieved 2024-08-21. "Information on Polygamous Marriages in Afghanistan" (PDF). justice.gov. Retrieved...

of child abuse. In many countries, such practices are lawful or – even where laws prohibit child marriage – often unenforced. India has more child brides...

industry in Pakistan and Iran. Afghan women and girls are subjected to forced prostitution, arranged and forced marriages—including those in which husbands...