Child marriage is a symptom of the lower value we place on girls. Girls are not passports, but neither are they political footballs to be tossed around when it becomes politically expedient.

In 2018, Sununu signed a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage to 16. For more than a hundred years, the law had allowed 13-year-old girls and 14-year-old boys to get married with parent and ...

She is one of hundreds of poor Christian girls who have been trafficked to China in a market for brides that has swiftly grown in Pakistan since late last year, activists say.

Child marriage is formal or informal union before age 18. It is a violation of children’s human rights that robs children of childhood. Child marriage also disrupts their education and drives ...

Child marriage is a common practice in Syria, said Fatima Hilal, another volunteer who coaches refugee women and girls about their rights through aid organization CARE’s Women Leadership ...

Iraq is facing widespread concern and criticism over a proposed bill that could lower the minimum marriage age for girls to 9 years and for boys to 15. The contentious legislation, introduced by ...

Girls in many places in the world face challenges from the day they are born. They struggle to get access to education and financial opportunities and are often vulnerable to abuse. Refugee girls — or ...

Abducting Christian girls for marriage is ‘genocidal’, pontifical charity says By Charles Collins Nov 24, 2021 | Managing Editor ...

Other young girls are often abandoned by the men who beaded them because they come from the same family. Sajon is one among thousands of Samburu girls living in the dry heartland of northern Kenya ...

The revision to the country’s marriage law received unanimous support, the country’s House of Representatives said in a statement on Monday. The previous minimum marriage age was 16 for girls ...