A former Conservative minister and an independent Muslim member of parliament (MP) sparked debates on cousin marriage in the United Kingdom after the MP opposed the former minister’s proposals to ban first-cousin marriages in the country.
A teenager whose lie about her teacher contributed to his death at the hands of an Islamist has apologized to the victim’s family at a court in France on November 26th, revealing how a lie can ruin or even take someone’s life.
Girl admits lying that teacher was Islamophobic before he was beheaded https://t.co/5ydFhn6b2D via @MailOnline Absolutely speechless. That poor, poor man -
Two parents in Washington State were arrested for reportedly trying to choke their 17-year-old daughter to death in an apparent "honor killing" attempt after she refused an arranged marriage with an older man in another country.
Alleged 'honor killing' attempt leads to parents' arrest outside of Lacey high school in Washington Statehttps://t.co/rClu65ZhGa
For the first time in Australia’s history, a mother was jailed under the country’s forced marriage law after she allegedly coerced her daughter into a marriage that led to her murder.
An Afghan mother forced her daughter into marriage. Six weeks later the 21-year-old ended up dead https://t.co/OTiE7qiulp
A white woman in Texas has been arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to drown a 3-year-old girl at a pool and making racist remarks towards her mother, with investigators asking for the case to be treated as a hate crime.
A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old Muslim child in possible hate crime incident https://t.co/Vw9ue56xmo
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) noted that one in five girls worldwide, or 650 million women, were forced to marry as children.
Despite efforts by institutions such as the United Nations to put an end to child and forced marriages (CFM), they are still prevalent in many parts of the world. In a remote province in Pakistan, a woman and her family are putting up a fight against an outdated and illegal tradition of forced marriage in their village that has haunted her for much of her life.
Teachers at a school in a town near Paris went on strike amid fears for their lives after one of their colleagues sparked outrage over a 17th-century painting that she showed to Muslim students during class.
Teachers strike amid safety fears as 'Muslim children and parents angry over nude painting at French school' @LBChttps://t.co/4Kl2bqQT19
A request by parents of children attending public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, to let their children opt out of classes where LGBTQIA+ books are being read and discussed was dismissed by a US District Court on August 24th.
A gay TikToker from the United States revealed that his parents once hired a preacher to supposedly exorcise demons from his bedroom and replace them with angels in an attempt to change his sexuality.
After making history as the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, the self-ruling island of Taiwan made another milestone in LGBTQIA+ rights when it allowed LGBTQIA+ couples to jointly adopt a child neither of them are related to, marking another first in a region where gay rights are largely repressed or ignored.
