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.

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has reported at least three child marriage cases every day during the last six years, despite several ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite progress in reducing the prevalence of this phenomenon, a recent UN report places Bangladesh as a topper in child marriage in Asia and 8th globally ...

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 ...

Serious attention needs to be paid to adolescent girls in Bangladesh, who still grapple with persistent inequalities, violence, child marriage, a lack of education and limited opportunities, said a ...