Poster calling for a plea for help to alleviate issues in South Asia such as forced marriage, child marriage, honour killings, and rape. These posters have sprung up in downtown Toronto, Ontario, ...

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

Government officials in Puducherry pledge to combat child marriage, supporting a national campaign for a "Child Marriage-Free ...

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – Child marriage continues to be prevalent with one in five girls and nearly one in six boys still being married as children, according to a study published in The Lancet Global ...

Using national data between 1993 and 2021, researchers observed that India’s national prevalence of child marriage—defined by the study as marriage before age 18—declined throughout the study period.

BHILWARA, India, Aug 4 (TrustLaw) - Her fate looked sealed when her family began organising the nuptial celebrations. But the bride-to-be, a shy schoolgirl from a remote village in western India, wasn ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A large proportion of women in India were married when they were still children, a study has found, and researchers warned that such unions carried higher risks of unwanted ...

Across the developing world, ten million girls are married off each year before the age of eighteen, usually against their will. One in seven of those girls is younger than fifteen. In some places ...

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...

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.

Jaipur: In a step toward dismantling the entrenched practice of child marriages, the Bhajan Lal Sharma govt has unveiled an ...

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