Maharashtra is considering making birth dates mandatory on wedding invitation cards to prevent child marriages. The proposal ...

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, ...

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 ...

[popcorn number="20%" desc=" National average for child marriage " class="Default"] [popcorn number="19%" desc=" Maharashtra average fro child marriage " class="Default"] To curb child marriages, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Maharashtra is considering a new rule requiring the birth dates of brides and grooms on wedding invitation cards to prevent child marriages. The state aims to reduce child marriage cases to below 10 ...

Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...

A Pakistan provincial government has ordered an inquiry into child marriages in areas affected by floods in 2022 following an exclusive AFP story on the subject. Pakistan's high rate of marriages for ...