In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

BHILWARA, India, Aug 4 (TrustLaw) - Her fate looked sealed when her family began organising the nuptial celebrations. But the bride-to-be, a shy schoolgirl from a remote village in western India, wasn ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India tightened laws against child marriage on Tuesday, with priests, police or local leaders facing jail and fines if they permit the widespread but illegal practice. Renuka ...

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 ...

When reports revealed that authorities in Maharashtra stopped 6,428 child marriages in seven years, many reacted with alarm.

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...

Madhubani: Marking National Girl Child Day with a strong call for social reform, personnel of the 48th Battalion, Sashastra ...

Police in Assam detain 3,000 men in month-long operation Crackdown leaves poor families without main breadwinner Campaigners say arrests wrong way to tackle child marriage RADHANAGAR, India, March 1 ...

Despite being illegal, child marriage is still common in much of India. Saumya Khandelwal, a photojournalist, followed one girl’s tragic story In 2013, I came across a pamphlet from an organisation ...

Police have thwarted a family’s attempt to marry off a 16-year-old girl in Maharashtra’s Beed district, an official said on Friday. Based on a tip-off, the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) on ...

Kadiri: The campaign chariot for the liberation of child marriage, designed by Samatha NGO to create widespread awareness on child marriage, was launched by Kadiri Revenue Divisional Officer ...

Agartala: Tripura’s social welfare and social education minister, Tinku Roy, announced that more than 700 child marriages were successfully prevented in the state over the past year, marking a ...