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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GUWAHATI, India — A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Sunday.

Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.

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 ...

Despite a widespread and growing consensus that child marriage should be banned, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice.

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - The Catholic Church in an eastern Indian state is excommunicating Christians under its fold who are found to be forcing minors into marriage, senior diocese officials said ...