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India accounts for about one-third of the world's child marriages, according to data from the UN's children agency UNICEF, ...

The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require significant reforms. On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the ...

On 14 January 2014, a 14-year-old girl by the name of Kader (ironically, her name means “fate” in Turkish) was laid to rest in the Pervari district of Siirt, Turkey. She shared the same fate as ...

Child marriage is not a tradition we can afford to romanticise. It is a violation of childhood, consent and opportunity.

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Although it has decreased significantly, in Asian households until a few years ago, a lot of emphasis was placed on the ...

A Pakistan provincial government has ordered an inquiry into child marriages in areas affected by floods in 2022 following an exclusive AFP story on the subject. Pakistan's high rate of marriages for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law ...