Rajni Devi liked school and had big dreams. She was not going to end up like so many other girls in India: married off as a child bride. Rajni was 14 years old when her mother told her she must get ...

MUMBAI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - More than a third of the world's child brides are from India, leaving children at an increased risk of exploitation despite the Asian giant's growing modernity and economic ...

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 ...

JAIPUR, India, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Married before her 18th birthday, Nirma Chaudhary could have ended up like thousands of other child brides in India's desert state of Rajasthan - ...

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 ...

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.

A number too enormous to count, is probably pretty accurate to describe the number of ‘child brides’ who are sold into marriage, all around the world, every single day. In fact, in the time it took ...

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.

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.