A 2018 Kentucky law intended to protect against child marriage is not being consistently followed across the state. Advocates report that minors are still being issued marriage licenses in violation ...

Pakistan’s top Islamic body on Tuesday (May 27) rejected a bill that seeks to criminalize child marriages in Islamabad, describing it as “un-Islamic.” The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) also ...

Less than three months after New Hampshire officially banned child marriage, the House passed an exception for people in the military. In June of 2024, then Gov. Chris Sununu passed a bill that raised ...

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 Jewish-led group Unchained at Last was part of a coalition advocating for the law. New legislation banning child marriage in Washington, D.C., was signed into law last week following advocacy by a ...

Maine became the fourteenth state to ban child marriage this week after Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, allowed a bill banning the practice to become law without her signature. Child marriage ...

The Texas Legislature is poised to end the controversial practice of child marriage in the Lone Star State with a bill the House passed Wednesday. House Bill 168, authored by Rep. Jon Rosenthal, ...

The Solomon Islands Government has begun reviewing its child-marriage law, with plans to consider raising the legal age to 18 — a move welcomed by Christian aid agencies, including World Vision New ...