According to a 2017 study conducted by the World Bank and ICRW, putting an end to child marriage in Mali could potentially yield an additional US$174.8 million in gains in terms of productivity.

Globally, 100 million girls are at risk of being forced into child marriage over the next decade, according to UNICEF. In certain parts of Africa and Asia, girls from minority religions face the ...

The practice of child marriage is a violation of human rights. Every day, girls around the world are forced to leave their families, marry against their will, endure sexual and physical abuse, and ...

Child marriage is illegal in India, so ceremonies are often held in the wee hours of morning. It becomes a secret the whole village keeps, explained one farmer. Stephanie Sinclair/National Geographic ...

It's a moment of "unprecedented attention" for child marriage around the world. Those words come from a 2016 Human Rights Watch report , which estimated that one in three girls in the developing ...

When it comes to child-marriage laws, the United States and Canada have more in common with Niger and Bolivia than with other Western, industrialized nations. Yesterday was International Women's ...

Nepal has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. Correspondent Reena Ninan travels to a rural Nepali village to follow one woman in her controversial fight to end child marriage ...

Whether it's child marriage or maternity leave, progress over the past 20 years has been mixed. U.S. ... but overwhelmingly around the world, this is girl marriage," said Heymann.

What happened to Sapana in a small town in Nepal is happening to girls across the developing world. Child marriage is increasing at alarming levels in many places, the United Nations says, and the ...

Fatouma has been volunteering for years with a nonprofit group fighting child marriage in Niger. The 21-year-old knows the danger; as a teen, she fled home twice to avoid becoming a child bride.