Merck Foundation underscores their long-term partnership with Angola First Lady to train healthcare providers and support ...

The programme highlighted the role girls are playing in preventing child marriages and promoting safety in their communities ...

Eddie Murphy was married twice before he and Paige Butcher tied the knot in 2024 Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...

SHAMVA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out. They ...

The Kenyan-German coming-of-age film, starring Michelle Lemuya Ikeny as a gifted girl whose dreams and aspirations get shattered, just won its 20th film festival award By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

Courtney Stodden slammed child marriage as “America’s dirty little secret” as she revealed she was the “breadwinner” in her marriage at just 16 years old. Stodden, who told the story of her marriage ...

Nearly 10,000 Kentucky children got married from 2000 to 2015, before a new law dramatically curtailed the practice. In 2018, state Sen. Julie Raque Adams, R-Louisville, and advocate Donna Simmons ...

A 2018 Kentucky law intended to protect against child marriage is not being consistently followed across the state. Advocates report that minors are still being issued marriage licenses in violation ...

Civil society actors have raised the alarm that 8.9 million girls aged ten to nineteen years face the threat of harmful practices, including child marriage, unless urgent action is taken. Child ...

Salute Your Shorts artistic director Erin Brown Thomas told IndieWire what she learned programming her annual shorts event in Los Angeles — and submitting to fests more than 900 times herself. “A ...