12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Fiordaliso via Getty Images Last November, Colombia passed a law prohibiting child marriage, giving 10.3 million girls the chance to ...

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 ...

Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and ...

Explore India's progress and challenges in ending child marriage by 2030, including key schemes and social disparities.

According to official statistics, 16 child marriages were stopped in 2024, while the number rose to 49 in 2025. Despite ...

NEW YORK -- A disturbing issue that affects many girls in our area is being forced into marriage when they are underage. It might surprise you that thousands of girls under the age of 18 are getting ...

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

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Adult women who left marriages they entered as children on Wednesday called on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage, a practice currently legal in most states. Missouri ...

About one out of every five marriages in Kyrgyzstan involve “bride kidnapping,” according to preliminary findings of a European Union study on gender equality in the Central Asian nation. The high ...

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 ...