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 ...

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 ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

CHANDIGARH – As part of the Punjab Government’s ongoing campaign to prevent child marriages, two such incidents were successfully averted recently in the Gurdaspur district. Sharing this information, ...

The mathematics lesson was in full swing when the hired vehicle pulled into the school compound. For Halima Dubow*, what seemed like an ordinary morning in Form Three was about to become the day that ...

Legislation to restrict marriage for Missouri residents under age 18 had been stalled by Republican critics for years. The law also stops child sex abusers from using non-disclosure agreements to ...

Missouri will stop seizing foster children's Social Security benefits to cover foster care costs. The new law also bans marriage for anyone under 18 and voids non-disclosure agreements in child sex ...

Pakistan (MNN) — Last month, human rights activists celebrated a new law in Pakistan that sets the legal age for marriage at 18 — applying only to the capital Islamabad territory. But Nehemiah* with ...

LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Despite fierce opposition from Islamist groups in Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday (May 30) signed into law a ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday announced that the state has witnessed an 81% decline in child marriage cases across 20 of its 35 districts between 2021-22 and 2023-24, attributing ...

This is a representational image. Milos Hajder/Unsplash. Bolivia's Plurinational Assembly is inching closer towards outlawing marriage for under 18s. Concretely, a bill introduced by MAS senator and ...

In 2025, the legal age of marriage in New Hampshire was raised to 18. On Thursday, the NH Senate voted to kill a House-passed exception for those in the military. All New England states now ban child ...