In rejecting a bill to outlaw child marriage in Islamabad, the Council of Islamic Ideology has once again positioned itself ...

Banning child marriage is un-Islamic, Pakistan’s government was told after setting 18 as the minimum age to marry. Its Child Marriage Restraint Bill, unanimously passed by both houses of the country’s ...

According to the World Health Organization ... albeit at a slower pace. Child marriage in Guinea is linked with lower socioeconomic status, reduced educational attainment, and increased ...

Jersey's parenting laws could be changed so children born out of wedlock are no longer considered "illegitimate".Home Affairs ...

An amendment to Iraq's 1959 Personal Status law could theoretically make ... especially in economically disadvantaged communities where child marriage is already prevalent. Ages for consent ...

Now she fears other young girls will be subjected to similar ordeals if lawmakers pass proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law ... consequences of child marriage were laid bare in ...

Despite these domestic debates, USAID has pressed to end child marriage elsewhere around the world because of its negative effects on girls and their children. A decade ago, the Council on Foreign ...

Child marriage remains legal in ... If children try to run away from home to escape a forced marriage, police may return them because it is a status offense to leave home before the age of 18 ...

And a separate Statista chart plotting the minimum legal age of marriage ... world are said to be married before they turn 18. Social experiment reveals people's reactions to seeing a child ...

Nearly three decades ago, Princess Diana famously said, “There were three of us in the marriage,” and the world has never forgotten ... Eschew Relationship-Status Discrimination, and Embrace ...

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.

Advocates and child ... guy in the world,” according to The Associated Press. Wyoming Republicans, meanwhile, pushed back against state legislation raising the minimum age of marriage to 16 ...