Across the developing world, ten million girls are married off each year before the age of eighteen, usually against their will. One in seven of those girls is younger than fifteen. In some places ...

In the past two years, nearly 37,000 child marriages were prevented and 4,777 trafficked children were rescued in Madhya Pradesh through collaborative efforts between government agencies and NGOs.

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A large proportion of women in India were married when they were still children, a study has found, and researchers warned that such unions carried higher risks of unwanted ...

BHILWARA, India, Aug 4 (TrustLaw) - Her fate looked sealed when her family began organising the nuptial celebrations. But the bride-to-be, a shy schoolgirl from a remote village in western India, wasn ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India, which has one of the world's highest rates of women married as ...

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...

Rights activists have lauded a top court order to prevent child marriages in India, where over 1 million children entered into wedlock in the 2023-24 period. The Supreme Court on Oct. 18 said child ...

In Yadgir, a Class 9 student of a government residential school delivers a baby in the school toiletIn Raichur, police arrest ...