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

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

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 the first incident, the child marriage of a 15-year-old girl was stopped just in the nick of time when the officials ...

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

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

A woman in Jodhpur, India, successfully annulled her child marriage through a court battle, highlighting the ongoing issue of ...

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 ...

Emerging Voices features regular contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Hagit Bachrach, a ...

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. Kamble said he has helped ...