A new report highlights the cost of inaction and provides suggestions to end the practice in the United States, where child ...

Kentucky lawmakers banned legal child marriage in 2018, however that legislation left a loophole that’s remained for the last ...

A new study backed by former Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg finds that recent cuts to humanitarian and development assistance could slow or even reverse progress on ending ...

Some governments are taking innovative steps to discourage the practice. One country fines participants including the wedding ...

Kentucky Public Radio investigated more than a dozen cases of illegal child marriages in the state, how it happened and who is trying to stop it.

The Women's Initiative at Columbia SIPA's Institute of Global Politics (IGP), together with the Center for Global Development (CGD), today released a new ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An age difference of no more than four years was a new requirement amended to a bill that aims to ...

A bill that would eliminate a legal exception allowing 17-year-olds to marry with a judge’s approval is now moving to the full Senate. Supporters say Senate Bill 156 would close a loophole left behind ...

Minors as young as sixteen years old can get married in Colorado. A new bill seeks to raise the minimum age to eighteen.

Rights groups condemn Jose Maria Balcazar's past defence of child marriage, calling his appointment a "serious mistake" for Peruvian democracy.

Chief Chikanta of the Tonga people in Kalomo District has backed President Hakainde Hichilema’s call for collaborative efforts to end child ...