Maharashtra is considering making birth dates mandatory on wedding invitation cards to prevent child marriages. The proposal ...

In the third part of the ‘Child Brides of America’ series, Firstpost learns about the life of Sara Tasneem, a child marriage survivor, who has been working tirelessly for the past nine years to ensure ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require significant reforms. On ...

A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...

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India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

Maharashtra is considering a new rule requiring the birth dates of brides and grooms on wedding invitation cards to prevent ...