KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed a child and wounded a NATO soldier and three other people Saturday in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The ...

INVESTIGATION. TONIGHT. NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE IN THAT CASE. TODAY, ADVOCATES ARE ALSO SPEAKING OUT TO END CHILD MARRIAGE HERE IN KENTUCKY. IN 2018, THE LAW ESTABLISHED THAT 17 IS THE LEGAL AGE TO ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and advocates on Thursday launched a new push to end child marriage in Kentucky. The R.I.S.E. Kentucky Coalition stands for Reclaim Innocence, ...

When the Kentucky legislature passed new protections against child marriage into law in 2018, Donna Simmons felt her years of tireless advocacy to prevent other teens from predatory marriages had ...

WOMEN and girls’ rights defender, Equality Now, has called on Zimbabwe and other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) countries to address the region’s rising cases of child marriages. The ...

It’s illegal to marry before the age of 16 in Pakistan, yet the country is home to almost 19 million child brides. So why can’t the South Asian country stop the harmful practice?

Malawi has one of the highest child marriage rates, with over a third of girls married by age 18. This severely violates girls’ rights, fuelling a cycle of poverty that costs the nation millions. With ...

Afghanistan is seeing its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition, the World Food Programme said Monday, adding it needed $539 million to help the country’s most vulnerable families. Almost 10 ...

ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan is seeing its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition, the World Food Program said Monday, adding that it needed $539 million to help the country’s most vulnerable families.