As part of the Punjab Government’s ongoing campaign to prevent child marriages, two such incidents were successfully averted ...

Age BA, pore bie (education first, then marriage) – this simple slogan, long championed separately by a government education ...

Although recent amendments have addressed some shortcomings of the legal framework governing rape in Bangladesh, it remains ...

Three girls reveal how they escaped forced marriage in communities where a first period signals it's time to wed ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is alarmed by the abrupt closure of learning centers in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, which will leave nearly 500,000 children without access to ...

With only five years to go, merely 35 percent of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are on track, while ...

In 2012, the government enacted the Population Policy, with the first objective of reducing the total fertility rate ...

Early marriage often leads to early motherhood, when a girl’s body is not yet physically ready. This contributes to a lifetime of health complications, from uterine disorders to chronic anemia and eve ...

There are today more than 650 million women suffering the direct consequences of child marriage. Global instability - war and ...

The world has witnessed many movements and efforts to bridge the gap between genders, i.e., men and women and the process has been going on for more than a century. In the post-World War 2 scenario, ...

Reiterating its stand against the child marriage, the Assam government has recently disqualified and removed four ward members from their concerned panchayats for their involvement in child marriage.

The man who already has two wives, got married to a sixyear old girl on Friday and was stopped by Taliban administration from ...