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, ...

Climate change is now believed to be a leading contributor to more frequent and younger nuptials, with 12 million girls ...

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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.

The Allahabad High Court has ruled that the legal age of marriage applies equally to all citizens, holding that personal law ...

In this article, the author examines how Iraq’s Personal Status Code has weakened legal safeguards for women and girls, particularly by facilitating child marriage and creating a parallel religious ...

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 ...

Once an order for wedding cards is placed, printing press owners and operators, as well as marriage hall (mangal karyalaya) managers, will be legally required to verify the authenticity of the bride's ...