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: ...
When I went to a Baghdad court in May 2023 to interview a judge, I wasn’t expecting to witness a child marriage.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...