In Rajasthan, India, Munna is playing football to avoid getting married young. Adapted from Assignment from the BBC World Service.

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 15-year-old Geeta Jadhav disappeared from her home during last year’s monsoon, her teacher, Suvarna Gaikwad, already knew what had happened. Geeta had been married off to Prashant Koli, a boy ...

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager ch.

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 ...