Sold as a child bride, escaped at 15: How Payal Jangid became the voice against child marriage

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 ...

Child Marriage Is a Human Rights Crisis -- and Costs the World $175 Billion a Year. New Research Provides a Strategy to End 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 report titled Accelerating Efforts to End ...
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Indian activists seek to save child brides

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 ...
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19-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom

With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...
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Indian child bride married off at 11 months finally granted divorce

Santadevi told the court two years ago that she was married to 28-yr-old Saanval Ram who was nine-yrs-old at the time of their wedding 19-yr-old Santadevi Meghwal from Jodhpur, in the western state of ...

Saudi official moves to regulate child marriages

Days after a Saudi judge upheld the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man 39 years her senior and blocked a divorce, the kingdom's justice minister said he plans to enact a law that will protect ...