Congress reintroduced the Child Marriage Prevention Act to stop child marriage in 34 states, setting age 18 as the minimum.

Climate change is now believed to be a leading contributor to more frequent and younger nuptials, with 12 million girls ...

Prior to 2018, child marriage was legal in all 50 states. As of 2026, 17 states have passed bans. In SC, 16- and 17-year-old ...

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, ...

One of the campaigners leading the charge is Courtney Stodden, someone who, unfortunately, knows all about being married off ...

Shamila (L) was married off in exchange for money, one of a growing number of underage marriages taking place in Pakistan's flood-stricken areas - Copyright AFP Asif ...

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.

In this article, the author examines how Iraq’s Personal Status Code has weakened legal safeguards for women and girls, particularly by facilitating child marriage and creating a parallel religious ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court outlawed child marriage on Wednesday after two former child brides took the government to court in a ground-breaking case to ...