An amendment to Iraq's 1959 Personal Status law could theoretically make ... especially in economically disadvantaged communities where child marriage is already prevalent. Ages for consent ...

Child marriage is a problem that cuts across countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities. Child brides can be found in every region in the world. Major factors that place a girl at risk of marriage ...

West and Central Africa home to six of the top 10 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world with a prevalence rate of 41 percent in 2018. This year, Save the Children ...

Of the 640 million women who have been victims of child marriage in the world, the vast majority (45%) are in South Asia, but that region is taking the fastest steps to eradicate it, which is not ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

the world's most widely ratified human rights treaty. Recently, UNICEF has publicly demanded an end to child marriages. A study on the practice declared that it often inflicts physical and ...

The impoverished Southeast Asian country has the 12th-highest number of child marriages in the world, according to Britain-based rights group Plan International, with long-held cultural practices ...