Nigora was a 17-year-old student in Tajikistan when her father decided she should marry a distant relative. Nigora’s mother had died two years earlier, and she was unable to go against her father’s ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 1 in 3 marriages begin with an abduction, researchers and rights groups say. Unaware of abductors waiting for them outside their workplace or home, women are forcibly ...

In many cases, the groom will rape his kidnapped bride to prevent her from returning to her family due to shame LONDON, Aug 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About one in five young women and girls in ...

BISHKEK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Walking proudly down a catwalk, the lights and glamor seemed like a lifetime away from Elzat Kazakbaeva's nightmare ordeal five years ago when she was grabbed ...