In a country where the innocence of childhood has too often been buried under the weight of tradition, coercion, and silence, a rare moment of moral clarity emerged on May 16. Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously passed a bill banning child marriages—a decision that should have been made decades ago, but was […]
In a heart-wrenching turn of events, a high court in Pakistan has stepped in to demand justice for two Christian sisters, just 13 and 18 years old, who were abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off to their kidnappers. The family’s nightmare began on July 23 in the small village […]
Salma (name changed) was just a child, only 15 when her world changed forever last summer. In the heat of the southern Sindh province of Pakistan, in the remote Dadu district, she was married off to a man twice her age. The monsoon season was on the horizon, bringing with it […]