Pakistan has charged dozens of people with trafficking women to China as wives. Rabia Kanwal was one bride who says she was lied to. In China, her husband has a different story.
Tag: Marriages
Why International Women’s Day Isn’t Going Away
For all the progress women have made, they are still a long way from true equality.
Charles Dickens Tried to Banish His Wife to an Asylum, Letters Show
Newly published correspondence gives Catherine Dickens’s account of a great Victorian scandal.
A Bargain Store Has Britons Asking: Can You Really Pop the Question With Plastic?
The British bargain store Poundland offered a one-pound engagement ring for Valentine’s Day. It sold 20,000 of them before the holiday arrived.
El Chapo’s Wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro: ‘I Admire Him’
The 29-year-old who married Mexico’s most notorious drug lord as a teenager discusses their courtship and the weeks of testimony depicting her husband as a cruel killer.
Britain Drops Demand That Women Forced Into Marriage Pay for Rescue
Reversing a policy that caused widespread outrage, the government will instead seek expenses from the people who sent the women abroad — often their parents.
Times Insider: Hearing Divorce Cases on a Sidewalk in Niger, as Women Assert Their Power
The testimony I listened to — before a judge sitting on a sheepskin rug, as cars, motorbikes and sheep passed by — could have been aired by annoyed wives in courtrooms, or living rooms, anywhere in the world.
A Quiet Revolution: More Women Seek Divorces in Conservative West Africa
Frustrated by their husbands’ inability to earn a living, and in a society where basic views on relationships have changed, women are asserting more control over their marriages.
A Generation of Widows, Raising Children Who Will Be Forged by Loss
The war in Afghanistan is disproportionately killing young men, leaving behind women with limited options.