Mahbooba Faiz grew up hearing about her mother's shock and horror at being married at just 10 years old. As the Taliban ...

Some reacted with anger and confusion, while others looked on approvingly, even offering their congratulations. A 12-year-old girl, in a white wedding dress and veil, stands beside a man who looks ...

The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages involving minors — treating the girls as sellable property. It also ...

In villages across Hathras and Etah, child marriages still happen and wedding lights still glow, but not as openly or as frequently as they once did.

In this article, the author examines how Iraq’s Personal Status Code has weakened legal safeguards for women and girls, particularly by facilitating child marriage and creating a parallel religious ...

According to a report by the state women and child development department, from April 2025 to March 2026, Karnal registered ...

TOKYO -- Child marriages are surging in Asia and other developing countries, raising concerns that the international community may miss its goal of ending the practice by 2030 as pandemic-related ...

Child marriage cases in Karnataka have declined by 21.35 percent over the past three years, according to data from the State Department of Women and Child Development, with officials attributing the ...

NALGONDA: The changing age pattern of child marriages in Nalgonda district has posed a challenge to child protection and police officials, as most underage brides are now aged 16–17, only months away ...

Hundreds of families from an insular Hasidic sect in northern Israel are systematically marrying off girls as young as 12 to husbands who are not much older, as welfare services fail them and ...

Mumbai, April 21: In a major statewide crackdown, the Maharashtra Women and Child Development Department prevented 32 child marriages in a single day during Akshaya Tritiya, Minister Aditi Tatkare ...