High Court in Pakistan Continues to Rule in Favor of Underage MarriagesMay 27, 2021 — 5/27/2021 Pakistan – (International Christian Concern) Nena, a fourteen-year-old girl from Hyderabad City in Pakistan’s Sindh province, returned to her childhood home on May 1 after two years in captivity....
Nigerian Girl Escapes Captors Who Forced Marriage and ConversionMarch 17, 2020 — 03/17/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – On March 12, the Hausa Christian Foundation (HACFO), released a statement that one young girl named Sadiya Amos was able to escape from kidnappers...
High Court in Pakistan Rules in Favor of Underage MarriagesFebruary 6, 2020 — 02/06/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – On Monday, February 3, the Sindh High Court in Karachi ruled that men in Pakistan can marry underage girls as long as they have...
80 Girls Rescued From Forced Marriages in TanzaniaJanuary 15, 2018 — ICC Note Tanzania has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. UNICEF estimates that nearly one-third of all girls in Tanzania are married before they turn...
13 Year Old Girl Kidnapped Safely Returns Home Four Days LaterNovember 9, 2017 — ICC Note A 13 year old Christian girl was kidnapped in the Nigerian State of Yobe and was going to be given to a Muslim man for marriage. This was...
Young Kenyan Women Relate Tales of Sex Slavery in Al-ShabaabAugust 30, 2017 — ICC Note Kenyan women held captive by Al-Shabaab relate the terrors of being forced into sex slavery, forced marriages and servitude. Many of these women came from coastal Kenya, and...
