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 ...

JAIPUR, India, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Married before her 18th birthday, Nirma Chaudhary could have ended up like thousands of other child brides in India's desert state of Rajasthan - ...

When 15-year-old Geeta Jadhav disappeared from her home during last year’s monsoon, her teacher, Suvarna Gaikwad, already knew what had happened. Geeta had been married off to Prashant Koli, a boy ...

A woman here reclaimed her life through a court battle breaking a decade-long union that was solemnised when she was just 12, ...

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 ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...

When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty.