A push to ban child marriage in Ohio has stalled at the Statehouse, leaving current law in place that allows some ...

"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

Hanifeh Avandi, a 24-year-old Turkish woman from Tabriz, was reportedly executed in Iran on Sunday, April 19, amid claims she ...

The Taliban has issued a new law on divorce that explicitly acknowledges child marriage is permitted in Afghanistan. Two ...

Teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh resist child marriage, empowered by frontline workers, aiming for education and social change.

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

Afghanistan’s regime has formalised what the UN calls “gender apartheid” by legalising child marriage and the sale of infant girls declaring “the silence of a virgin girl can be interpreted as marital ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

The world should have been outraged by her execution, yet they were deathly silent, preferring to focus on other issues, as if it did not matter.

NEW YORK -- A disturbing issue that affects many girls in our area is being forced into marriage when they are underage. It might surprise you that thousands of girls under the age of 18 are getting ...