Access to education and skills training helps girls avoid early marriage and gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential. A peer facilitator displays materials from the Rupantaran tool ...

Young mothers with their children in Muktikot where child marriage has become more prevalent as subsistence farmers cope with a succession of droughts and floods that have destroyed harvests. All ...

Inside a one-bedroom rented apartment in the heart of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, Prati (not her real name) is busy poring over notes from the Japanese language class she joined in the second week of ...

Child marriage remains a huge threat to girls worldwide. New research from Plan International reveals how this harmful practice puts girls in danger and limits their opportunities.

I went through female genital mutilation—FGM—when I was one week old, so I don't remember the experience itself. But I had the most severe form: Excision, which is the removal of parts of the clitoris ...

Kathmandu, July 30 -- The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has recommended the Nepal government to lower the current minimum age for marriage even as ...

Parents forced to sell their children are given another way out of poverty. KATMANDU, Nepal, July 6, 2008— -- Olga Murray laughs when she's called a modern-day abolitionist. It is, however, a ...

Did you know that child marriage isn’t just a problem in developing countries? Many Western nations still allow minors to marry under legal loopholes. This video exposes the reality of a practice that ...

When Nepal’s Finance Minister Barshaman Pun presents the budget on May 28, he has an opportunity to extend the country’s Child Grant program. Doing so would advance the economic and social rights of ...