In Rajasthan, teenager Payal Jangid defied tradition by refusing her child marriage at 15. Her courageous act sparked a movement, transforming her into a prominent young voice advocating against child ...

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 ...

In Padampura village in Rajasthan, 14-year-old Nisha Vaishnav and her 18-year-old sister Munna were at football practice when they noticed adults taki.

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 ...

Nisha Vaishnav has quickly excelled at football, rising to play for the Rajasthan state team in 2024 One hot summer evening when Nisha Vaishnav was 14, she and her 18-year-old sister Munna were at ...

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...

Child marriage is impending child rape. On International Women's Day, protect girls' childhood to secure women's future. India's progress proves it's possible—end it now ...

Government officials faced assault from relatives while intervening to stop a child marriage in Kendrapada. The team, seeking ...

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

Across the developing world, ten million girls are married off each year before the age of eighteen, usually against their will. One in seven of those girls is younger than fifteen. In some places ...

Two sisters in an Indian village talk about how football has changed their lives and helped them push back against child marriage.