A new report highlights the cost of inaction and provides suggestions to end the practice in the United States, where child ...
Ohio lawmakers are pushing to end what advocates call "child marriage" by raising the state’s minimum legal marriage age to ...
Some governments are taking innovative steps to discourage the practice. One country fines participants including the wedding ...
A new study backed by former Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg finds that recent cuts to ...
In 2018, Kentucky was a vanguard in the fight to end child marriages, becoming one of the first states to enact legislation limiting marriages for those under 18. But in the eight years since the law ...
In Rajasthan, teenager Payal Jangid defied tradition by refusing her child marriage at 15. Her courageous act sparked a ...
Child marriage is impending child rape. On International Women's Day, protect girls' childhood to secure women's future.
An initiative of Just Rights for Children launches worldwide 100 Days of Action on International Human Rights Day to galvanize support towards ending child marriage. JRC, led by child rights activist ...
Across the developing world, ten million girls are married off each year before the age of eighteen, usually against their will. One in seven of those girls is younger than fifteen. In some places ...
Like almost all others, survivors of childhood trauma long for loving connection. Although they often bring unique challenges to marriage as a result of their hidden wounds, they are capable of ...
There are grants and govt schemes galore but keeping girls out of child marriage is still an unfinished fight in Rajasthan.