In 2025, India confronts child marriage head-on through the Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign. From Karnataka’s stricter laws to ...

Explore India's progress and challenges in ending child marriage by 2030, including key schemes and social disparities.

Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most states. Missouri lawmakers in 2018 ...

12 year old Fawziyah Abdullah Youssef dies in childbirth after 3 days of labor. DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2009— -- After days of struggling through labor a 12-year-old "child bride" has died in Yemen ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most states. Missouri ...

Goli Kouhkan was forced into marriage with cousin at 12, gave birth at 13 and was abused for years; she's spared execution ...

12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...

More than 300 girls have been rescued from early marriages in Nkhata Bay district since 2022 through a four‑year initiative ...

Headlines are sprouting up everywhere about new court cases that may endanger Roe v Wade. But abortion is not the only issue that is critical to female control of their bodies. We tend to think about ...

With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...

The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require significant reforms. On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the ...