Respect Ruvimbo Topodzi was 15 and walking home from school in her native Zimbabwe when a 22-year-old man asked her out. She turned him down but it was too late. Her father saw them and assumed they ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

By Zuzana Schwidrowski and Omolola Mary LipedeADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb 19 2026 (IPS) - Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the ...

A fresh push by Zimbabwean government to tackle child marriage could land guardians like Mhlongo in trouble in the southern African nation where child marriage is rife. When Oriditsi Tlou got pregnant ...

Wisconsin could become the latest state in the U.S. to ban child marriage. A group of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation, Senate Bill 634 and Assembly Bill 656, to eliminate child marriage ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that would outlaw child marriage in Ohio. “No child should have to be as resilient as I was to reach adulthood,” child marriage survivor ...

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said that child marriage in parts of northern Nigeria is mainly caused by the government’s failure to provide enough schools and opportunities for girls ...