AVA got married at 13 to escape the advances of her alcoholic father. But it was a choice that had devastating consequences. On her wedding finger glints a gold band. For while she may be well below ...

SANAA (Reuters) - An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that ...

DAVAO CITY—The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) Davao Region office is conducting an intensified information drive throughout the region particularly among Muslim tribal communities to ...

Southern districts like Mysuru and Mandya are seeing a significant drop in child marriages, with many cases successfully prevented. Increased awareness and swift action by authorities are credited for ...

Guwahati: Assam has recorded a sharp decline in the number of child marriages, surpassing the national average, as per a report of a survey carried out by a non-governmental organisation in five ...

PUNE: Maharashtra has prevented 6,428 child marriages over the past seven years, even as the state continues to witness a sharp rise in such incidents. According to data from the Women and Child ...

It was during an afternoon in June 2025 that Monija Khatun, a student in class 11, decided to dial the helpline number 1098. She was reporting the wedding of a 14-year-old classmate that had been ...

Karnataka has recorded one of the sharpest declines in child marriages in the country, with cases falling by 55% among girls and 88% among boys over the past three years, according to a new study. The ...

New Delhi, Union Minister of Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi on Thursday said child marriage snatches childhood away from daughters and pushes them towards early maternity and "unimaginable ...

BHOPAL: Marriages of girls aged below 18 years continue to increase in Madhya Pradesh, despite the government claims of working against it in a focussed manner, especially through public awareness ...