Even countries that have laws against child marriage sometimes fail to enforce them. But in Malawi some are seeing the first signs of change. The third time we visited Tamara we were told she had ...

At the ID4Africa 2025 AGM, the Principal Secretary of Malawi’s National Registration Bureau presented a detailed explanation ...

Despite the introduction of legislation to prevent the marriage of underage girls in Malawi, the practice remains ... Eddy Micah Jr. talks to Memory Chisenga, a child rights activist, and DW ...

Three of the world's most influential women have told BBC News they want to end child marriage within a generation. Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney and Melinda French Gates announced last year a ...

In 2017, Malawi amended their child age of marriage to 18 years from 16 years. They had one of the worst cases when it came to child marriage before this new amendment, where 42% of the girls were ...

Child marriage is a barrier to the better ... young woman named Memory Banda successfully persuaded the Parliament of Malawi to adopt a constitutional amendment raising the legal age of marriage ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama, human rights attorney Amal Cooney and philanthropist Melinda French Gates advocated for ways to end child marriage in an op-ed on Wednesday. In their Time ...