In 2025, India confronts child marriage head-on through the Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign. From Karnataka’s stricter laws to ...

MADHURA, India — The well-wishers had all gathered even though neither the teenage bride-to-be nor her mother wanted the girl to go through with the wedding. It took a police raid to stop it, and even ...

Dharwad: The Centre has directed all states and districts to launch a campaign over the next ten years, to make the entire ...

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 ...

MORIGAON, India (AP) — Standing outside the local police station in her village in northeast India, 19-year-old Nureja Khatun is anxious. Cradling her 6-month-old baby in her arms, she has been ...

Ranchi, In line with the Centre’s ‘Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat’ campaign, child protection organisation Just Rights for Children on Monday announced the launch of an intensive intervention programme across ...

Police in Assam detain 3,000 men in month-long operation Crackdown leaves poor families without main breadwinner Campaigners say arrests wrong way to tackle child marriage RADHANAGAR, India, March 1 ...

Poster calling for a plea for help to alleviate issues in South Asia such as forced marriage, child marriage, honour killings, and rape. These posters have sprung up in downtown Toronto, Ontario, ...

NEW DELHI:With the aim to reduce prevalence of child marriages to 10% by 2026 and to make India child marriage free by 2030, a 100-day 'intensive awareness campaign for a child marriage fee bharat’ ...

Rights activists have lauded a top court order to prevent child marriages in India, where over 1 million children entered into wedlock in the 2023-24 period. The Supreme Court on Oct. 18 said child ...