Beed: “The development of Wadwani taluka is good, but it needs more efforts for further development. The lifestyle of women should improve, and child marriages should be averted. Hence, the officers ...

The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...

A fresh push by Zimbabwean government to tackle child marriage could land guardians like Mhlongo in trouble in the southern African nation where child marriage is rife. When Oriditsi Tlou got pregnant ...

An initiative of Just Rights for Children launches worldwide 100 Days of Action on International Human Rights Day to galvanize support towards ending child marriage.

Colombia's government voted Thursday to ban child marriage, after previously allowing those as young as 14 to get married. The law, pushed forward under the slogan "they're girls, not wives", would ...

The West Bengal government has long showcased its welfare models, but reports and testimonies from schools, health centres and field workers show early marriage continuing at scale.

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

Child marriage survivors recently held a protest in California where they changed the lyrics of the National Anthem. On Friday, The Mercury News reported that Unchained at Last, a child-marriage ...

At the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, survivor of child marriage and internationally-recognized expert on the issue Naila Amin advocates for federal law banning marriage for children ...

KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As coordinator of a shelter for pregnant teenagers in central Uganda, Ritah Ssetumba has seen thousands of young girls struggling to cope with having a child but ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...