The South American country took nine attempts to get the ban passed, as the US continues to have a patchwork of laws across ...

The initial proposal to reform the law used the slogan “They’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu received a total of 3,049 child marriage complaints in 2023, with an average of nearly eight cases being ...

KRISHNAGIRI: A four-month-old daughter of a woman, a victim of child marriage, died due to health complications on Thursday ...

A study authored by Xiangming Fang, a research associate professor in the Georgia State University School of Public Health, ...

The Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens is all set to bring a 'national strategy to end child marriage, 2081'.

Colombia has officially outlawed child marriage after a 17-year campaign. The historic legislation, "They are Girls, Not ...

Colombian representatives erupted in cheers after the country’s Senate approved a law prohibiting the marriage of minors on ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

This submission focuses on children’s adequate standard of living, including the lack of social security; barriers to the ...

S.W.A.T.' star Shemar Moore, who welcomed his first child with girlfriend Jesiree Dizon in 2023, says he "didn't have a good ...

Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million girls per year, according to the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF. But there’s been a global drop in child ...