The Akshaya Tritiya festival in north India is celebrated with great joy and is considered highly auspicious for weddings as it is believed to bring wealth, prosperity, and good luck to the newlyweds.

Illiteracy, poverty are root causes of child marriage Child marriage isn’t particular to Assam but is common among the most deprived and marginalised communities in India.

Child marriage still a cause for concern SIR: The then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan once said, “To educate girls is to reduce poverty”.

And eight states — including California and Washington — have no age floor for marriage, according to the center. Legal loopholes at the federal level allow for child marriage to continue as well.

AMMAN — Even though Jordan has made huge strides in reducing child marriage rates, factors such as poverty and cultural approval remain impediments to overcoming early marriage in the Kingdom, ...

Nepal has 5 million child brides. A proposal to lower the marriage age could imperil millions more, mothers warn.

Ending child marriage in the US will first require recognising it as an urgent, ongoing, domestic problem. Further stigmatising the practice or ostracising affected communities will not help.

The South American country took nine attempts to get the ban passed, as the US continues to have a patchwork of laws across the country.

In fact, child marriage only reinforces patriarchal—and in some cases, predatory—attitudes towards girls.

Education is just one aspect, said Farah Nini, who is also a senior lecturer at the Universiti Malaya Faculty of Law. The National Strategic Plan in Handling the Causes of Child Marriages, which ...