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

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 ...

When 15-year-old Geeta Jadhav disappeared from her home during last year’s monsoon, her teacher, Suvarna Gaikwad, already knew what had happened. Geeta had been married off to Prashant Koli, a boy ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A ruling by India's top court criminalizing sex with underage brides could prevent thousands of girls being trafficked and sold on the pretext of marriage, ...

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager ch.

A woman here reclaimed her life through a court battle breaking a decade-long union that was solemnised when she was just 12, ...

Jind: Authorities in Jind district prevented two child marriages within 24 hours, underscoring the continuing prevalence of ...

When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty.