child marriage

India’s Supreme Court has eliminated a law that allowed men to have sex with underage girls if they were married to…

Spain recently raised its minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16, and also upped the age for consent from 13 to 16.…

When Nigerian 14-year-old Wasila Umaru was forced into a marriage with a 35-year-old man, she was terrified and…

Today, October 11, 2012, heralds the first International Day of the Girl Child, which the United Nations Population…

Laxmi Sargara, an 18-year-old girl from India who was entered into an arranged marriage when she was just a year…

One of the first studies to look at child marriage and mental health has found that American women who married…

Inspired in part by Rekha Kalindi, increasing numbers of young Indian girls are refusing to submit to child…

An 8-year-old Saudi girl, whose mother petitioned for a divorce after her father married her off to a 50-year-old…