In Rajasthan, teenager Payal Jangid defied tradition by refusing her child marriage at 15. Her courageous act sparked a movement, transforming her into a prominent young voice advocating against child ...

Does a viral video showing wedding scenes where various little girls are being married to older men authentically show Muslim child marriages, as social media posts are claiming? No, that's not true: ...

The Women's Initiative at Columbia SIPA's Institute of Global Politics (IGP), together with the Center for Global Development (CGD), today released a new report titled Accelerating Efforts to End ...

With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...

Santadevi told the court two years ago that she was married to 28-yr-old Saanval Ram who was nine-yrs-old at the time of their wedding 19-yr-old Santadevi Meghwal from Jodhpur, in the western state of ...

In Padampura village in Rajasthan, 14-year-old Nisha Vaishnav and her 18-year-old sister Munna were at football practice when ...

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 ...

Days after a Saudi judge upheld the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man 39 years her senior and blocked a divorce, the kingdom's justice minister said he plans to enact a law that will protect ...

Government officials faced assault from relatives while intervening to stop a child marriage in Kendrapada. The team, seeking ...