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SD Senate votes to maintain child marriage
In a 19-16 vote, the South Dakota Senate voted Tuesday to kill a bill that would raise the age to marry in South Dakota to 18 ...
New Hampshire Union Leader16h
Key panel deadlocks over making exception to ban on child marriage
A key House committee deadlocked over whether to recommend support or political death for carving out an exception to the ban ...
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Wed at age 15, she wants Oklahoma to ban child marriage
Lawmakers have introduced two bills this year to limit or outlaw marriage for minors. Previous efforts to pass laws that would keep young pregnant mothers from marrying have failed.
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Child marriage remains a “persistent challenge” in Eurasia – report
About one out of every five marriages in Kyrgyzstan involve “bride kidnapping,” according to preliminary findings of a European Union study on gender equality in the Central Asian nation. The high ...
Foreign Aid Is Critical To The Well-Being Of Millions Of Children
Children around the globe rely on UNICEF programs to survive, grow and thrive — programs that lift societies and make the ...
Skilled Legal Workers Find They, Too, Are Targets of Trump Citizenship Order
The executive order would ban citizenship for children born in the United States to foreign workers on visas that often lead ...
Lost futures, marital rape, and exploitation: How child marriages in Iraq commodify women
Sharia law, which influences much of Iraq’s legal system, permits child marriage under certain conditions, often tied to the ...