Climate change is now believed to be a leading contributor to more frequent and younger nuptials, with 12 million girls ...

For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime have been brought to trial. Four men appeared at a High Court on Friday in the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — One third of U.S. states have banned marriage for those under 18 with limited or no exceptions.

The Ohio Senate declined to vote on a bill that would end child marriage by raising the minimum age to 18.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than three months after New Hampshire officially banned child marriage, the House passed an exception for people in the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va (WOWK) — A child endangerment case out of Vinton County, Ohio, is also shedding light on West Virginia’s legal loophole on child marriages. Gary Siders Jr., 36, and Elizabeth Siders, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On January 1, New Hampshire officially implemented a comprehensive ban ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Vinton County child abuse case is bringing up questions around child marriage in Ohio. Elizabeth Siders and Gary Siders Jr. were married in West Virginia in 2008 when Elizabeth was only 15. If they ...

In villages where girls once married at 14, changing attitudes are helping reduce child marriage and create new opportunities for young people.

A bench of justices JJ Munir and Achal Sachdev observed that the age of marriage for every citizen of the country ...