Child marriage spans continents, language, religion, caste. In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries with high ...

The result of this marriage was a son and a daughter. With tears in her eyes, she told Pajhwok Afghan News: “My husband was a kind ... “Old age on one side, the pain of my child on the other… If I’m ...

A woman dies from pregnancy related complications in Afghanistan every two hours due to a lack of access to health care and ...

A civil court in Pakistan s Punjab province has annulled the forced marriage of a Christian girl who had been subjected to ...

The Bihar government has decided to constitute a state-level 'task force' headed by the chief secretary to monitor action taken by authorities to prevent and eradicate child marriages in the state.

Pakistan’s “monsoon brides” — child brides sold off to repair family budgets in the rainy season — have spiked since the devastating floods of 2022. From 15 June to October 2022, floods in Pakistan ...

China’s marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 ...

One of those bills approaching the finish line would eliminate child marriage in Missouri. The Missouri Senate gave near unanimous approval to a bill that would close a loophole allowing 16- and ...

These women, barred from higher education by the Taliban, had fled Afghanistan seeking safety. They fear severe repercussions upon return, including forced marriage and targeted violence.

PESHAWAR: The provincial government is likely to send the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill, 2019, to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for review. Minister for law Aftab Alam ...

The Utah Legislature unanimously approved a bill that would prevent youth marriages if the parties are more than four years apart in age. A Utah lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that the ...