Around the world, about 12 million child marriages (or marriages of girls less than 18 years of age) occur every year. Child marriage is considered a hallmark of backward societies, but it is also ...

Kathmandu, Aug. 24 -- The sight of students going to school is painful to Rabindra. Not because he is envious of them, but because he regrets not being one of them. Rabindra, 17, was a sharp student, ...

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Nine villages in Kaithal district have passed resolutions to socially boycott families found involved in child marriage, particularly of girl child. The resolution was passed in Sisla, Jakholi Kaman, ...

Individuals living in urban cities are experiencing the combined effect of increasing temperatures and poor air quality, often referred to as the urban heat dome. Pregnant mothers and their unborn ...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Begum, a Rohingya refugee, is relieved she married off one of her seven daughters before funding cuts closed her school and thousands of others in Bangladesh's cramped ...

Media personality MzGee has hit back at critics who questioned her decision to have a child outside marriage, stressing that no one has the right to judge her life choices. Speaking on her Gee O’Clock ...

PHOENIX — The state agency that protects Arizona’s children has been audited again and again over the past decade. Despite finding lots of problems, only a fraction have been fully fixed, according to ...

Rachel Cohen Booth is a senior policy correspondent for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these ...

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