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 ...

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, ...

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

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.