In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

When the world talks about child rights, India is often cast in the shadow of its challenges. The children in the country are often seen through the lens of vulnerability, without rights or safety.

The Maharashtra Samajik Vikas Trust is a partner with the nationwide network Just Rights for Children, which operates in over 450 Indian districts via more than 250 NGOs working to protect child ...

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A large proportion of women in India were married when they were still children, a study has found, and researchers warned that such unions carried higher risks of unwanted ...

Rights activists have lauded a top court order to prevent child marriages in India, where over 1 million children entered into wedlock in the 2023-24 period. The Supreme Court on Oct. 18 said child ...

Guwahati: Assam recorded a sharp decline in the number of child marriages, with an 89% decrease among girls and 91% among boys in the last three years, surpassing the national average, according to a ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs. Since 17-year-old Rehana was a ...

Girls as young as 10 are sometimes legally wed here in the U.S., even as we tell other countries to end this cruel practice.