led Malawi to outlaw child marriage. Despite the passage of the law against child marriage, enforcement has been weak, and it is still common for girls here to marry young. In Malawi, 37.7 percent ...

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 ...

Among the four countries in our study, Niger has the highest child marriage prevalence worldwide—76% of girls are married before the age of 18. The rates stand at 52% in Mali, 42% in Malawi ...

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 ...

It was a historic collective of women and girls, all of whom gathered with a shared goal—to end child marriage in Malawi, a country where 42% of girls are wed by the age of 18—and a shared ...

The 10 hotspots where the child marriage/climate crisis risk is the greatest are the Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger and South Sudan.

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 ...

According to the Global Climate Risk Index, some of the countries most affected by climate change are Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi; all of which have astounding rates of child marriage.