KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As coordinator of a shelter for pregnant teenagers in central Uganda, Ritah Ssetumba has seen thousands of young girls struggling to cope with having a child but ...

An initiative of Just Rights for Children launches worldwide 100 Days of Action on International Human Rights Day to galvanize support towards ending child marriage.

The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent ...

A fresh push by Zimbabwean government to tackle child marriage could land guardians like Mhlongo in trouble in the southern African nation where child marriage is rife. When Oriditsi Tlou got pregnant ...

New Hampshire's child marriage ban went into effect on Wednesday, making it the 13th state to require people to be 18 years old to get married. Child marriage remains legal in most states, many of ...

Maharashtra has prevented 6,428 child marriages in seven years, but incidents rose 800% recently, indicating socio-economic ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...

Every three seconds, a girl is married before she turns 18. Twelve million girls every year are married as a child—12 million childhoods cut short. This is what happened to Binita in Nepal. Married at ...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Women and Child Development Annapurna Devi on Thursday said child marriage snatches childhood ...

Bhopal: Child marriages are on a rise in Madhya Pradesh. The past five years data shared by the govt in the MP state assembly on Tuesday confirms the same. From 366 incidents of child marriage that ...