Rajni Devi liked school and had big dreams. She was not going to end up like so many other girls in India: married off as a child bride. Rajni was 14 years old when her mother told her she must get ...

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 ...

JAIPUR, India, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Married before her 18th birthday, Nirma Chaudhary could have ended up like thousands of other child brides in India's desert state of Rajasthan - ...

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 ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

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Nearly one in four women aged 20 to 24 is still married before 18, with wide inter-state variations wherein West Bengal, ...

A number too enormous to count, is probably pretty accurate to describe the number of ‘child brides’ who are sold into marriage, all around the world, every single day. In fact, in the time it took ...

When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty.