Kentucky already banned nearly all child marriages in 2018, but some are still happening in violation of state law. A bill to ...

In Rajasthan, India, Munna is playing football to avoid getting married young. Adapted from Assignment from the BBC World ...

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In 2018, Kentucky was a vanguard in the fight to end child marriages, becoming one of the first states to enact legislation limiting marriages for those under 18. But in the eight years since the law ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephanie Lowry, survivor of child marriage, speaks during a press conference at the Ohio Statehouse. (Photo by Morgan Trau, WEWS.

This year, California had another opportunity to ban child marriage in the state, but a division inside the Democratic Party is dashing those hopes in a disturbing display of indifference. In February ...

Senate Bill 156 would raise Kentucky’s legal marriage age to 18, eliminating all exceptions and closing a loophole that ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

FREETOWN, (June 21, 2024) – Sierra Leone has passed a historic bill to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalize the widespread practice.

In the first incident, the child marriage of a 15-year-old girl was stopped just in the nick of time when the officials ...