Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and ...

SANAA (Reuters) - An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that ...

More than 300 girls have been rescued from early marriages in Nkhata Bay district since 2022 through a four‑year initiative called Child Not Bride, state media reported Tuesday. According to Malawi ...

Southern districts like Mysuru and Mandya are seeing a significant drop in child marriages, with many cases successfully prevented. Increased awareness and swift action by authorities are credited for ...

BHOPAL: Marriages of girls aged below 18 years continue to increase in Madhya Pradesh, despite the government claims of working against it in a focussed manner, especially through public awareness ...

Bhopal: Child marriages are on a rise in Madhya Pradesh. The past five years data shared by the govt in the MP state assembly on Tuesday confirms the same. From 366 incidents of child marriage that ...

New Delhi, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi on Thursday said child marriage snatches childhood away from daughters and pushes them towards early maternity and "unimaginable ...

PUNE: Maharashtra has prevented 6,428 child marriages over the past seven years, even as the state continues to witness a sharp rise in such incidents. According to data from the Women and Child ...

TOKYO -- Child marriages are surging in Asia and other developing countries, raising concerns that the international community may miss its goal of ending the practice by 2030 as pandemic-related ...