A “Borat”-style bride kidnapping was caught on tape in his home country of Kazakhstan — where taking a woman to be your lawfully wedded hostage is a very real and widely accepted custom. Disturbing ...

You are a 16-year-old girl, going about your business, walking along the streets near your family home. All of a sudden a van pulls up and a group of men accost you. Laughing and yelling, they drag ...

Bride kidnapping remains a common practice in a handful of countries. And when young women are kidnapped into marriage, their babies pay a price, suggests new research. The researchers looked at the ...

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, involves a man abducting the woman he wishes to marry. The woman is often taken unexpectedly and sometimes forced into ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 1 in 3 marriages begin with an abduction, researchers and rights groups say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Bride kidnapping, or Ala kachuu in Kyrgyz, is the practice of a man abducting the woman he wishes to marry, and it is still common practice in Kyrgyzstan to this day. Despite the fact that the Kyrgyz ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Bride kidnapping remains a common practice in a handful of countries. And when young women are kidnapped into marriage, their babies pay a price, suggests new research from Duke ...