There are many types of forced marriage in this world, but perhaps the most dramatic is marriage by abduction, or bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is common in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 1 in 3 marriages begin with an abduction, researchers and rights groups say. Unaware of abductors waiting for them outside their workplace or home, women are forcibly ...

In many cases, the groom will rape his kidnapped bride to prevent her from returning to her family due to shame LONDON, Aug 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About one in five young women and girls in ...

Elzat Kazakbaeva (L) and Aida Sooronbaeva (R), bride kidnapping survivors, wait in the backstage for a fashion show organised by fashion designer Zamira Moldosheva, part of a public movement against ...

BISHKEK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Walking proudly down a catwalk, the lights and glamor seemed like a lifetime away from Elzat Kazakbaeva's nightmare ordeal five years ago when she was grabbed ...