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An Afghan teenager is protesting her country's practice of selling child brides through the unlikely medium of rap music. Sonita Alizadeh, 19, who was just 10 years old when her Muslim parents first ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Afghan rapper and activist, Sonita Alizadeh, fled her homeland with her family when it was last ruled by the Taliban more than two decades ago - when women could not work, ...

The first time 19-year-old Sonita Alizadeh's parents tried to sell her into marriage, she was 10 years old. "I wasn’t sad because I didn’t know what they were talking about," Sonita remembered during ...

NINE thousand US dollars: that is the price tag put on the life of 18-year-old Sonita Alizadeh by her own mother, who attempts to bring her refugee daughter back from Iran to Afghanistan where she ...

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced that its 2025 Cannes LionHeart is Afghan rapper, author and human rights activist Sonita Alizadeh. The accolade is given to a person ...

Rowan Blanchard and Kiersey Clemons are just two of the New Faces of Feminism in the February 2016 issue of Teen Vogue. The two actresses join Rhi Blossom, Tuesday Bassen, Lily Zweig, Eli Erlick, ...

In 2015, Afghanistan’s religious scholars interpreted that for a marriage to exist under Shariah law, both parties need to exhibit ‘adulthood’ and ‘sanity’. The definition of adulthood is ambiguous.

Spring break is over and campus is bustling, but all Sonita Alizadeh can think of is the brutal murder of a young Afghan woman. Surrounded by the excited chatter of reunited peers, Sonita is consumed ...