Afghan child bride Sahar Gul, 15, looks at Afghan Minister of Women’s Affairs Husn Banu Ghazanfar (right) as she recovers at a hospital in Kabul, on December 31, 2011. Afghan police rescued the teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution, officials said on December 27. Sahar Gul was found in the basement of her husband’s house in northeastern Baghlan province late on December 26, 2011, after her parents reported her disappearance to the police. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)