VIENTIANE: Youth representatives from across Laos convened to tackle the urgent issues of child, early and forced marriage ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Pakistan, June 3 -- There have been several cases of early marriages brought forward to the legal courts, but nothing concrete had been done to minimize them until last week when the National Assembly ...

On balance, people in middle-income countries are more likely to say they would be uncomfortable than comfortable if they had ...