The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages ...

New family law regulation that sets out rules for marriages involving minors has been passed in Afghanistan, where children ...

Born under Taliban rule and nearly sold into marriage as a child, Sonita Alizadeh turned to music and transformed her ...

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...

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On 14 January 2014, a 14-year-old girl by the name of Kader (ironically, her name means “fate” in Turkish) was laid to rest in the Pervari district of Siirt, Turkey. She shared the same fate as ...

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 is not a tradition we can afford to romanticise. It is a violation of childhood, consent and opportunity.

India accounts for about one-third of the world's child marriages, according to data from the UN's children agency UNICEF, ...

NEW YORK -- A disturbing issue that affects many girls in our area is being forced into marriage when they are underage. It might surprise you that thousands of girls under the age of 18 are getting ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...