Stirton, of Reportage by Getty Images, joined a Human Rights Watch investigation in South Sudan. Child marriage there is common, where some girls are married as young as 12.

Stephanie Sinclair has been taking photos of child brides for nearly 15 years. Now, she's teaching girls rescued from early marriage how to photograph each other.

Can Child Marriages Be Stopped? : Parallels Across the developing world, 1 in 3 girls marries before age 18. ... An older man has promised them a big dowry for their daughter's hand.

Some estimates now show child marriage rates to be four times higher among Syrian refugees today than among Syrians before the crisis. İ., 20, and A., 17, with their 5-day-old baby at their home ...

Child marriages are declining, with the largest drop in South Asia, according to UNICEF. Ten years ago, a South Asian girl’s risk of getting married as a child was about 50%, but now that has ...

Child marriage at any age is still legal in California. Our state must pass legislation making it legal for adults age 18 and up to marry.

A person holds a sign that reads "Stop Child Marriage" during an event in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia on March 6, 2022. New Hampshire's child marriage ban took effect on January 1.

In 2021, the state of New York passed “Naila’s Law,” one of the strongest laws against child marriage in the United States. It sets a minimum age requirement for marriage at 18, no exceptions.

Almost half of South Sudanese girls between ages 15 and 19 are married, some as young as age 12. An egregious violation of women and girls’ human rights, child marriage in South Sudan ...