Today, (December 4), at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, a powerful 100-day nationwide movement was kick-started by the Ministry ...

Minister of State Smt. Savitri Thakur highlighted the grassroots-driven nature of the Abhiyan, noting that sustainable change ...

To reduce prevalence of child marriages to 10% by 2026 and to make India child marriage free by 2030, a 100-day ‘intensive ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 suffering” ...

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – Child marriage continues to be prevalent with one in five girls and nearly one in six boys still being married as children, according to a study published in The Lancet Global ...

Using national data between 1993 and 2021, researchers observed that India’s national prevalence of child marriage—defined by the study as marriage before age 18—declined throughout the study period.

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 ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A large proportion of women in India were married when they were still children, a study has found, and researchers warned that such unions carried higher risks of unwanted ...

A shocking video shows a 16-year-old girl being forced into marriage with a 75-year-old man in India. Shared widely on social ...

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 ...