Domestic violence in Bangladesh leaves girls with lasting trauma, weak legal protection, and harmful cultural pressures, ...

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The Special Intensive Revision of the voters list across 12 Indian states could potentially lead to sharpening of the communal divide.

Arranged Unions 4%), making it the most significant country where this practice remains dominant. Stats on arranged marriages ...

Nadeen Ayoub, the first-ever “Miss Palestine” contestant, was among 30 contestants to survive another round of the Miss ...

Views on whether girls should marry before age 18 have radically shifted in Bolivia. But the cultural norms and attitudes ...

In a landmark move to protect children, especially girls, from forced child marriages, a provincial assembly in Pakistan on ...

Child marriage in Bangladesh has declined over the past six years, but progress remains too slow to meet national or global targets, according to findings of the Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster ...

Youth groups, teachers, faith leaders and local committees are jointly tackling early marriage through awareness-building, reporting and timely community action ...

Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin have proposed legislation to eliminate child marriage. The bill would remove the exception allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent. Similar bills ...

Brigitte Combs was 11 years old and living in Los Angeles when her mother found a prospective husband for her. The mother and father were in the Hare Krishna movement, and she says that as a result, ...

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