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  • September 2008

    • Teens Buried Alive in 'Honor Killings' Spark Pakistan Rage

      Times (UK)  |  Sep 5, 08 4:59 AM CDT

      Teens Buried Alive in 'Honor Killings' Spark Pakistan Rage

      (Newser) - Nationwide protests have erupted in Pakistan since three teenage girls were buried alive in mid-July in a remote village because they planned to choose their own husbands, reports the Times of London. The girls—ages 14, 16 and 18—were abducted and tortured, then buried still breathing. Two older women who tried to help them were also buried alive. More »

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      Pakistan  • Taliban  • women's rights  • tribal areas  • honor killings  • arranged marriage

  • July 2008

    • Georgia Dad Charged in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'

      Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Jul 9, 08 6:25 AM CDT

      Georgia Dad Charged in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'

      (Newser) - A Pakistani-born Georgia man appeared in court yesterday accused of strangling his daughter with a bungee cord after she filed for divorce, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The man's wife told police that he had argued with his 25-year-old daughter over her plans to end her arranged marriage. The father maintains his innocence. More »

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      murder  • Georgia  • divorce  • arranged marriage  • honor killings

  • April 2008

    • Divorcee, 8, Tells of Abuse in Yemen

      ABC News  |  Apr 27, 08 6:56 AM CDT

      Divorcee, 8, Tells of Abuse in Yemen

      (Newser) - An 8-year-old girl granted a divorce by a Yemeni court last week has described how she ran from "room to room" to escape her 30-year-old husband until he "beat me and then did what he wanted," reports ABC News. "I cried so much, but no one listened to me." The girl, forced into the arranged marriage by her father, fled early this month to a nearby courthouse, where a lawyer agreed to take her case. More »

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      divorce  • Yemen  • arranged marriage  • forced marriage

  • March 2008

    • More Afghan Families Using Girls to Pay Debt

      Newsweek  |  Mar 30, 08 6:24 PM CDT

      More Afghan Families Using Girls to Pay Debt

      (Newser) - Besieged by debt, more Afghan farmers are paying lenders by handing over their girls as "loan brides," Newsweek reports. Often taken from their families forever, the girls—some younger than 5 years old—are commonly beaten or pushed to suicide by their fate. "My heart is still with my parents, brothers and sisters," one girl said. "Only my body is with my husband's family." More »

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      Afghanistan  • drugs  • marriage  • debt  • War on Drugs  • opium  • arranged marriage  • poppies  • dowry

    • South Koreans Turn to Cambodia to Buy Wives

      Associated Press  |  Mar 25, 08 1:15 PM CDT

      South Koreans Turn to Cambodia to Buy Wives

      (Newser) - A clampdown on marriage brokers in Vietnam has made neighboring Cambodia the new destination for South Korean men seeking to buy wives, the AP reports. About 2,500 Cambodian women have married Koreans this way in the past four years in a process in which men choose from as many as 100 mainly poor women—and which is denounced as "human trafficking" by officials. More »

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      South Korea  • Vietnam  • Asia  • Cambodia  • human trafficking  • arranged marriage

  • September 2007

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