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Sold as a child bride, escaped at 15: How Payal Jangid became the voice against child marriage
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 ...
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 ...
Child marriage has long been a problem in Afghanistan. A 2021 UNICEF report estimated that 28% of Afghan women aged 15–49 years were married before the age of 18. A new decree issued by the Taliban's ...
Tatkare said consultations are underway with the Rural Development Department and the Law and Judiciary Department before a final decision is made ...
Mahbooba Faiz grew up hearing about her mother's shock and horror at being married at just 10 years old. As the Taliban reintroduces child marriage in Afghanistan, she urges the world to act ...
Aditi Tatkare informed that as per the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2019-21 the child marriage percentage average was 23.3% nationally while it was 21.9% in Maharashtra.
Six-year-old Farzana was a child bride, pledged by her father to a 13-year-old boy for a sum equivalent to approximately $60. After repeated appeals from Farzana's mother, tribal chiefs intervened and ...
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