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 ...

Bardiya, Nepal – Bali, unlike most girls around her, never liked to sing and dance. She loved cars and dreamed of how it would feel to wrap her fingers around the wheel and leave her village behind in ...

Young mothers with their children in Muktikot where child marriage has become more prevalent as subsistence farmers cope with a succession of droughts and floods that have destroyed harvests. All ...

Inside a one-bedroom rented apartment in the heart of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, Prati (not her real name) is busy poring over notes from the Japanese language class she joined in the second week of ...

I went through female genital mutilation—FGM—when I was one week old, so I don't remember the experience itself. But I had the most severe form: Excision, which is the removal of parts of the clitoris ...

Meet the woman who is helping to stop child marriages after almost being forced into marriage herself at just 14. Neha, 18, ...

No child deprived of her human rights can imagine a path to a brighter future without support to overcome obstacles and someone to light the way. Child marriage, the early or forced marriage of a ...