New legislation banning child marriage in Washington, D.C., was signed into law last week following advocacy by a coalition including Unchained At Last, a Jewish-led organization that opposes underage ...

The New Hampshire House has voted to amend the state's child marriage laws to allow 17-year-olds in the military to marry.

The devastation of child marriage effectively ends a girl’s childhood. How? Forced marriage robs a girl of her education and more, replacing lessons learned in the classroom with adult ...

One of these goals is ending child marriage. Today, 15 million girls marry every year before they turn 18. Two weeks ago, the World Bank and ICRW released a study—funded by the Bill & Melinda Ga ...

“Some rural girls see marriage as saving themselves from the control of their families,” says an activist in the capital, Sanaa. The outsider's impulse toward child bride rescue scenarios can ...

Less than three months after New Hampshire officially banned child marriage, the House passed an exception for people in the military. In June of 2024, then Gov. Chris Sununu passed a bill ...

Krishnagiri police arrested five individuals involved in a child marriage between a 14-year-old girl and a 30-year-old man. The girl was rescued from Bengaluru when a video of her distress went viral.

The organization aims to end child marriage across the country. According to testimony submitted by the group, an estimated 3,604 minors were married in Oregon between 2000 and 2021. Based on an ...

The Utah Legislature unanimously approved a bill that would prevent youth marriages if the parties are more than four years apart in age. A Utah lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that the ...

This is despite the fact that child marriage has been illegal since a British empire-era law from 1929, with the legal age set at 18 for women and 21 for men. Despite the efforts of national and ...