Poster calling for a plea for help to alleviate issues in South Asia such as forced marriage, child marriage, honour killings, and rape. These posters have sprung up in downtown Toronto, Ontario, ...

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 ...

Today, (December 4), at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, a powerful 100-day nationwide movement was kick-started by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to help India end child marriage by 2030.

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

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 ...

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 ...

India unveils Raksha, an AI-powered child protection tool, at Prosperity Futures: Child Safety Tech Summit, to prevent ...

Over 25 crore people, including 3.28 lakh faith leaders across 4 lakh+ villages, have pledged for a Child Marriage Free India ...

Guwahati: Assam recorded a sharp decline in the number of child marriages, with an 89% decrease among girls and 91% among boys in the last three years, surpassing the national average, according to a ...

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 ...

For 17-year-old Payal Jangid, her fight against child marriage in her native India is personal. The teen — who last week was recognized at the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Awards with the Changemaker ...