AN estimated 12 million girls are married every year before they reach the age of 18. That is over 32,000 girls a day. Or almost 23 girls every minute who are being married off too soon.

Delhi Police arrested a man who was lured back to the city under false pretenses connected to a government housing allocation. He was wanted for a 2013 incident involving the forced marriage of a ...

Maasai girls are taking up martial arts to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence stemming from early marriage ...

But others have been shut down by the USAID cuts. One example: Plan had a major initiative in Nepal with a $20 million USAID ...

And a day more too. After all, when a 12-year-old child is pushed into marriage with a 30-year-old man, the entire village ...

In many cases, young brides lose their sense of identity. The transition from being a student or a child to a wife and mother ...

Marking 30 years since the 1995 Beijing Declaration, the report notes global gains—girls’ life expectancy at 15 has risen to ...

Over 400 people participated in an awareness marathon held as part of ‘Protect the Girl Child, Educate the Girl Child’ campaign in Krishnagiri. The 5-km-long run, organised under the aegis of district ...

Kamlesh Rani, the female sarpanch of Rawanhera village in Haryana, is combating child marriages despite Khap Panchayats' demands to lower the marriage age for girls. After 18 years as an Anganwadi ...

Once a girl is circumcised, she is considered an adult and ripe for marriage, meaning an abrupt end to childhood and education for many. “Most child marriages are caused by poverty in families ...