The initial proposal to reform the law used the slogan “They’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being ...

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A parliamentary committee will examine the stalled bill aiming to unify the legal marriage age for men and women in India.

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Therefore, child marriages have emerged as a reprehensible yet critical survival strategy for the indigenous communities in rural Sindh. In Sindh, the early marriage of female children has been a ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — In Jakarta’s coastal fishing communities, child marriage rates are on the rise as families struggle with economic hardships. Siti and Azizah, two sisters married as teens ...

and community engagement to address child marriage, referencing the “Just Rights for Children Alliance vs Union of India” case. A bench led by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, along with Justices J B ...

having replaced the erstwhile Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929. Even though a bill to amend the law currently in force in India in order to give it an overriding effect over personal laws is pending ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A child psychiatrist who altered a first-day-of-school photo he saw on Facebook to make a group of girls appear nude. A U.S. Army soldier accused of creating images depicting ...

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Repeated efforts to stop child marriages in India have still not borne fruit. Policies and laws, social awareness programmes and administrative intervention have not worked. The National Commission ...