Yemen locals claim a girl has died of internal bleeding after marrying a man five times her age, but official denies allegations ...

The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages ...

Some state lawmakers want to keep a loophole in Ohio that allows 17-year-olds to marry.

Teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh resist child marriage, empowered by frontline workers, aiming for education and social change.

Ohio legislators are not voting on a bipartisan bill that would ban marriage before the age of 18. Chagrin Falls resident ...

She was sentenced to death under qisas, the Islamic legal principle of 'retaliation in kind'.

Born under Taliban rule and nearly sold into marriage as a child, Sonita Alizadeh turned to music and transformed her ...

Afghanistan’s regime has formalised what the UN calls “gender apartheid” by legalising child marriage and the sale of infant ...

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A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

Child marriage is not a tradition we can afford to romanticise. It is a violation of childhood, consent and opportunity.

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 ...