LEMBAR, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fifteen minutes into their first date, Indonesian teenager Helma Yani received a marriage proposal from a boy she had just met. He spirited her away to ...

Kyrgyzstan's bride kidnapping "tradition" is not as ancient as it seems ...

Despite public awareness campaigns and strict laws against the spread of misinformation, fake videos continue to circulate on social media. The latest involves a short clip claiming a landlord’s son ...

In Kyrgyzstan, which is located in Central Asia, there is no word for 'date', and there are many cases where men kidnap women who will become wives and force them to marry. Sevindj Nurkiyazova, a ...