When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty. Kamble said he has helped ...

Hira Bibi, a 47-year-old rag picker and former child bride from a Bhubaneswar slum, has become a local hero by preventing six child marriages in the last four years. Driven by her own painful ...

When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty. Kamble said he has helped ...

Wanita DAP vice-chairman Kasthuri Patto said children need to be protected as they will be the next generation of leaders in Asean. A Wanita DAP leader has called on the women, family and community ...

CHENNAI: The number of child marriages in Tamil Nadu has increased at an alarming rate of 55.6 per cent between 2023 and 2024. While 1,054 marriages took place in 2023, it increased to 1,640 in 2024 ...

Child marriages in India halved from 47.4 % to 23.3 % in 2019-21 since the introduction of the Prevention of Child Marriage Act in 2006, Union Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi said ...

Jaipur: Rajasthan education department has instructed all joint directors to draft an action plan to curb child marriages during upcoming auspicious occasions like Akshaya Tritiya. The directive ...

21% of country’s child marriages took place in Karnataka in 2022, with 215 alarming cases Karnataka may appear as the most progressive state, but it is creating an alarming record in reporting the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) has expressed alarm over an unlawful and void “marriage” between a 10-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl in a supposed “traditional ...

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 ...

Jaipur: In order to prevent child marriages, the Rajasthan government has directed the printing presses to get the age proof of the bride and groom from the concerned families and print the date of ...

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 ...