LEMBAR, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fifteen minutes into their first date, Indonesian teenager Helma Yani received a marriage proposal from a boy she had just met. He spirited her away to ...

Hingoli: A rise in the number of child marriages organised in Hingoli district compared to last year has put the administration on alert, with the women and child welfare machinery intensifying ...

From Sally Al-Sabahi who, after being married at the age of 10, was raped and beaten by her much older husband to 13-year-old Ilham who, in 2010, died from internal bleeding four days after being ...

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 ...

With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...

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 ...

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 ...

26 August 2008 RIYADH: The Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) has called on government agencies to take necessary steps to end the practice of child marriages by adopting a clear and unambiguous ...

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 ...