In 2014, Nepal pledged to end child marriage by 2020 as one of its sustainable development goals. Two years later, it reset ...

Tionge Mtambo, headteacher at Tondola Primary School in Chitipa, Malawi, has been named a top 10 finalist for the GEMS Education Global Teacher Prize, a Varkey Foundation initiative organised in ...

Chikho in Ntchisi District have teamed up to protect children from early marriages and child labour. The move follows a call from World Vision Malawi to protect children from all forms of abuse to ...

Missouri moves to ban child marriage with bipartisan legislation. You can view where child marriage is still legal with this ...

The Child Development Department successfully intervened to stop the planned marriages of four minor girls in Uchhola village, Rudraprayag. Following a complaint, officials counseled the families on ...

Missouri's minimum age for marrying without parental consent is 16 years old. The Missouri Senate passed a bipartisan bill last year to raise the minimum age, but Republican leaders in the House never ...

She plays 13-year-old Nawi, the eponymous heroine of the coming-of-age film set in Turkana county, a rural area which borders Uganda and where the UN says one in four girls are married before they are ...

Children’s rights and needs drove national policy in Colombia and Finland. And for coastal areas, new proof of seabeds as carbon sinks.

In sub-Saharan Africa, more than six million pregnant and parenting girls are out of school — and few go back after giving ...

The Supreme Court is set to examine discrepancies in the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act regarding the annulment of underage marriages. The issue arises as males are considered legal adults at ...

Just because you say you don’t have a favorite child, doesn’t mean everyone around you can’t tell whom you like best. Take the episode of “The Crown” in which Prince Philip, Duke of ...