Thirty child marriages took place in one municipality in Sarlahi District during the lockdown earlier this year. This startling fact highlights how girls are at particular risk as the Covid-19 crisis ...

Access to education and skills training helps girls avoid early marriage and gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential. A peer facilitator displays materials from the Rupantaran tool ...

A growing debate has emerged in Nepal over how the law treats relationships between teenagers, with child rights activists ...

Teenager Asha Charti Karki told her parents she was going out to study, but instead she ran off to wed her boyfriend -- one of a growing number of Nepali teenagers who are marrying young by choice.

Inside a one-bedroom rented apartment in the heart of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, Prati (not her real name) is busy poring over notes from the Japanese language class she joined in the second week of ...

ZONTA, Ncell, UNFPA and UNICEF came together to discuss collective solutions towards ending child marriage. Nepal has the third highest rate of child marriage in South Asia with 37% of Nepali women ...