Meet the woman who is helping to stop child marriages after almost being forced into marriage herself at just 14. Neha, 18, has spent the past few years helping vulnerable girls in Nepal from being ...

A fresh push by Zimbabwean government to tackle child marriage could land guardians like Mhlongo in trouble in the southern African nation where child marriage is rife. When Oriditsi Tlou got pregnant ...

Since 2018, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have ended child marriage by raising the legal age for marriage to 18.

(CNN) — Since 17-year-old Rehana was a child, she dreamt of supporting her family. An only child to parents struggling to make ends meet in Bangladesh, she says, “I always thought, I have no brother, ...

On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the Child Marriage Prohibition Bill with a majority vote. The new law sets the minimum legal age for marriage at 18 for both males and females, and ...

When the Kentucky legislature passed new protections against child marriage into law in 2018, Donna Simmons felt her years of tireless advocacy to prevent other teens from predatory marriages had ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...

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