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 ...

IT was a quintessentially British wedding set in the idyllic countryside – but from the off, Thomas Brodie-Sangster’s marriage to Talulah Riley rang alarm bells. He was one of the ...

The teen bride at the center of this story keeps hearing the same line from strangers online: what happened to her is legal, ...

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 ...

The legislation sets 18 as the legal age for marriage for both males and females, but effective implementation will require significant reforms. On November 14, the Balochistan Assembly passed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I went to a Baghdad court in May 2023 to interview a judge, I wasn’t expecting to witness a child marriage.

About one out of every five marriages in Kyrgyzstan involve “bride kidnapping,” according to preliminary findings of a European Union study on gender equality in the Central Asian nation. The high ...

Tommy Mottola has a new host of problems to deal with. The music mogul appears hundreds of times in the Epstein Files, painting the picture of a close friendship with the now-dead convict. The more ...