She plays 13-year-old Nawi, the eponymous heroine of the coming-of-age film set in Turkana county, a rural area which borders ...

“Some rural girls see marriage as saving themselves from the control of their families,” says an activist in the capital, Sanaa. The outsider's impulse toward child bride rescue scenarios can ...

A Senate Bill, SB156, an act to increase the minimum age for marriage, has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 4-2 ...

A former military bride from San Diego came to Concord Tuesday to urge t Legislature to reject a proposal to allow 17-year-olds to marry if one member of the couple is active-duty military. The bill ...

The health and socio-economic consequences of child marriage are monumental and grave. Research by the World Bank and International Centre for Research on Women captured by Girls Not Brides says ...

Phulmoni Das was a little more than 10 years old when she died in 1889. Her death ignited a fierce debate on the plight of ...

Child marriage remains a critical social issue in Nepal, deeply rooted in cultural traditions and exacerbated by economic ...

Missouri moves to ban child marriage with bipartisan legislation. You can view where child marriage is still legal with this ...

In 2014, Nepal pledged to end child marriage by 2020 as one of its sustainable development goals. Two years later, it reset ...

Missouri used to be a national haven for child statutory rapists because of its shamefully lax child-marriage laws: Until a few years ago, kids as young as 15 could marry with the permission of just ...