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.

When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty. Kamble said he has helped ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...