Jharkhand Battles Child Marriage Despite Beti Bachao Campaign
In Jharkhand, deep-rooted gender biases, high violent crime rates, and child marriage practices are keeping women from ...
In this Haryana village, a woman sarpanch is fighting against child marriage and khaps
Jind: The woman sarpanch of Rawanhera village in Haryana's Kaithal district is on a mission to end child marriages in her ...
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Govt to set up task force to stop child marriages
According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 report, Bihar has the second-highest rate of child marriages in India, following West Bengal. The report states that 40.8% of women in the ...
Hindustan Times7d
Bihar to constitute 'task force' to prevent, eradicate child marriages
According to the National Family Health Survey -5, Bihar has the second-highest rate of child marriage in the country, following West Bengal. The report said 40.8 per cent of women in the state ...
The Better India3d
40 Years, 5 Million Lives: The Movement That Redefined Children’s Rights in India
In 1979, a young Air India purser, Rippan Kapur, gathered Rs 50 with friends to change children's lives. That small act grew ...
The Telegraph7d
Bihar govt forms 'task force' to prevent, eradicate child marriages; led by chief secretary
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.
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Karnataka includes PU college principals as child marriage prohibition officers
college principals as child marriage prohibition officers (CMPO), whose responsibility is to prevent any girl child studying in their college from marrying before 18 years. The deputy commissioner ...
Govt to set up task force to stop child marriages
Patna: The state govt is implementing several measures to prevent child marriages, including the formation of a state-level ...
The New Indian Express9d
Five held, including parents after 14-year-old girl rescued from forced child marriage in Krishnagiri
KRISHNAGIRI: A day a video of a gang carrying off a 14-year-old girl went viral, Krishnagiri police on Thursday arrested five persons, including the parents, under the Child Marriage and Pocso Act ...
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The Indian film showing the bride's 'humiliation' in arranged marriage
It is often said that marriages are made in heaven. But in India, where a majority of marriages ... prospective grooms visited his home. "As a child you don't question tradition," he says, adding ...
The Pioneer on MSN3d
Concerns against child marriage raised in Rajya Sabha
Issues including child marriage, agents duping people to travel to foreign countries and duplicate voter ID cards figured in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
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Video: 14-Year-Old Forcibly Married, Physically Carried Off By Husband
Cases have been filed against all of them under various sections pf POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) and Child marriage Act. All of them face two years in jail and a find ...