The South American country took nine attempts to get the ban passed, as the US continues to have a patchwork of laws across ...

The initial proposal to reform the law used the slogan “They’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu received a total of 3,049 child marriage complaints in 2023, with an average of nearly eight cases being ...

KRISHNAGIRI: A four-month-old daughter of a woman, a victim of child marriage, died due to health complications on Thursday ...

A study authored by Xiangming Fang, a research associate professor in the Georgia State University School of Public Health, ...

Colombia has officially outlawed child marriage after a 17-year campaign. The historic legislation, "They are Girls, Not ...

The Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens is all set to bring a 'national strategy to end child marriage, 2081'.

Colombian representatives erupted in cheers after the country’s Senate approved a law prohibiting the marriage of minors on ...

Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million girls per year, according to the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF. But there’s been a global drop in child ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...