The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages ...

Yemen locals claim a girl has died of internal bleeding after marrying a man five times her age, but official denies allegations ...

Born under Taliban rule and nearly sold into marriage as a child, Sonita Alizadeh turned to music and transformed her ...

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Some state lawmakers want to keep a loophole in Ohio that allows 17-year-olds to marry.

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...

India accounts for about one-third of the world's child marriages, according to data from the UN's children agency UNICEF, ...

On 14 January 2014, a 14-year-old girl by the name of Kader (ironically, her name means “fate” in Turkish) was laid to rest in the Pervari district of Siirt, Turkey. She shared the same fate as ...

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, ...

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 ...