CHILD marriage persists in Pakistan for many reasons, and ending the practice requires measures that are sensitive to the problem’s complexity. Debates on child marriage tend to reduce this ...

The Assam government's approach of taking legal action against child marriage led to an 81 per cent decline in such cases in 20 of its 35 districts between 2021-22 and 2023-24, Chief Minister ...

Banning child marriage is un-Islamic, Pakistan’s government was told after setting 18 as the minimum age to marry. Its Child Marriage Restraint Bill, unanimously passed by both houses of the ...

Kolkata, West Bengal Minister Shashi Panja said the state government will emphasise building awareness among girls and boys about the harmful effects of child marriage. Bengal govt to build ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2025 into law, setting the minimum age for marriage at 18 years in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). The new ...

ISLAMABAD: Presi­dent Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed into law the Islamabad Capital Terri­tory Child Marriage Rest­raint Bill 2025, setting a minimum legal age of 18 years for marriages in ...

In rejecting a bill to outlaw child marriage in Islamabad, the Council of Islamic Ideology has once again positioned itself not as a moral guide but as a shield for patriarchal violence.

Deputy Director of the Women and Child Development Department Veeranagouda has said that child marriage is an age-old social evil practice and it should be eradicated from the route. He was ...

Pakistan, May 29 -- In rejecting a bill to outlaw child marriage in Islamabad, the Council of Islamic Ideology has once again positioned itself not as a moral guide but as a shield for patriarchal ...

On January 1, New Hampshire officially implemented a comprehensive ban on child marriage, setting a stringent age limit of 18 ...

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed into law a bill fixing the minimum age for marriage at 18 years to curb child marriages despite opposition from right-wing clerics. The Islamabad ...