Shahida Bibi, a Christian woman in Pakistan, was cleared last month to leave her forced marriage to a Muslim and return to her faith and family. Bibi’s mother eloped with a Muslim man when she was 11 ...

Child marriage spans continents, language, religion, caste. In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries with high ...

In countries where child marriage is prevalent, it is often justified by tradition, religion, or economic hardship. Families ...

The bill would ban marriage for anyone under 18 . Currently, minors as young as 16 can marry with parental consent.

One chamber down, one to go on an effort to ban child marriage in Missouri. The bill sponsored by Sen. Tracy McCreery, ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is expected to send the draft Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2019 to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for its opinion before proceedi ...

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The plan focuses on key factors contributing to child marriages, including low income ... In Malaysia, family law is contingent on a person’s religion and state of residence.