NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Despite laws banning child marriage in South Asia, deep-rooted social acceptance of the practice and a failure by authorities to crack down and punish ...

Child marriage continues to affect one in every two girls in Bangladesh, despite legal reforms and ongoing efforts to protect ...

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Access to education and skills training helps girls avoid early marriage and gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential. A peer facilitator displays materials from the Rupantaran tool ...

To protect children from commercial sexual exploitation, a new initiative titled “Project Shurakkha” has been launched. The ...

LAHORE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clerics in Pakistan’s most populous province of Punjab will be punished if they allow underage marriages along with the parents of the youngsters under tougher ...

Comedian Onkar Gupta, whose bit about his parents' child marriage went viral a few months ago, said that he was also supposedly married to a girl when he was in the first grade.

What is the current landscape of child trafficking in Asia? Child trafficking in Asia remains a profound challenge, one that truly demands our urgent and collective attention. We observe that ...