Fact-Check: FALSE. Malawi does not hold the eighth-highest rate of child marriage in the current global ranking in Child ...

As Bangladesh sees a sharp rise in violence against women and children, the government has taken a move to address the issue ...

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has said the state government is considering making marriage registration mandatory for all ...

In Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, teenage girls are commonly forced to marry before reaching adulthood, in spite of laws setting ...

Chief Minister Manik Saha, while attending a campaign under the NeshaMukt Bharat Abhiyan, addressed the growing concern of child marriage in the state. He reiterated that girls cannot be married ...

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amendments have addressed some shortcomings of the legal framework governing rape in Bangladesh, it remains largely outdated and insufficiently comprehensive. The legal definition of ...

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

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

In a deeply disturbing case emerging from southern Afghanistan, a six-year-old girl was allegedly sold and forced into ...