But when he saw how many children in India were being trafficked, abused, and forced into marriage, he knew he couldn’t stay silent. “It all started with failure,” Ribhu says. “We tried to help, but ...

A 2-month-old boy died of child abuse-related injuries Monday in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Kayson Flowers was found ...

as well as a boy too. “It turned out to be a wonderful, wonderful thing.” Pischke’s final argument for maintaining child marriage in South Dakota was that it would negatively impact men.

Bhubaneswar: A total of 8,159 child marriage cases have been registered ... But marriages involving boys below the legal age of 21 have increased to 13.3% in NFHS-5, compared to 11% in NFHS ...

So that's why I started to realize I really wanted to do a story on this.” UNICEF calls child marriage “a fundamental violation of human rights,” and Georgia has one of the highest rates of ...

the Allahabad High Court annulled the child marriage, and the wife, aggrieved by this ruling, has appealed before the Supreme Court. While the Supreme Court will decide the age limit for boys and ...

The actions of the girls despite the death sentence are messages that the victims of child marriage might not relent in asserting their choices and freedom and that the threat of paying the ...

One proposal requires couples to attend marriage counseling before they can file for divorce. The other gives a tax credit to married couples with kids, as long as it is their biological child.

Around the world, some 12 million girls are married each year, two million before the age of 15. While child marriage can affect boys as well, girls are six times more likely to be married as children ...

Jind: Minor girl rescued from child marriage A minor girl in Jind district was saved from becoming a child bride when authorities, alerted by a tip-off, intervened and verified her age as 12 and a ...

TIRUPATI: Over 2,350 people from 50 villages in Tirupati district participated in the ‘Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat’ (Child Marriage-Free India) campaign, organised by the PRAGATHI, an NGO dedicated ...

Due to a rigid interpretation of Sharia law, child marriage is permitted in Sudan, allowing both boys and girls to get married as early as age 10. Stereotypes around premarital sex also frequently ...