"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require significant reforms. On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the ...

Neda was just 12 years old and a schoolgirl in Kabul when her parents married her off to a distant relative, a man she had never met. Her family was poor; his was better off. Neda believes money and ...

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, ...

The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...

A push to ban child marriage in Ohio has stalled at the Statehouse, leaving current law in place that allows some ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law ...

A Pakistan provincial government has ordered an inquiry into child marriages in areas affected by floods in 2022 following an exclusive AFP story on the subject. Pakistan's high rate of marriages for ...

Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...