Since 2018, 16 states and Washington, D.C., have ended child marriage by raising the legal age for marriage to 18.

The architects of Project 2025 released a roadmap on Thursday for the American family that encourages heterosexual marriage ...

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FREETOWN, (June 21, 2024) – Sierra Leone has passed a historic bill to ban child marriage after girls across the country and Save the Children joined a campaign to criminalize the widespread practice.

Rosalyn Yellin said she was a teenager when she got married and that her mom signed a consent form to let it happen.

This year, California had another opportunity to ban child marriage in the state, but a division inside the Democratic Party is dashing those hopes in a disturbing display of indifference. In February ...

Unchained At Last, a group supporting bill HB 1455 to end child marriage in Washington state, meets with Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, left, who chairs the Senate Law & Justice Committee, inside the ...

Religious leaders and traditional rulers have been asked to speak out against gender-based violence (GBV) and child marriage ...

Child marriage robs girls of their childhood and threatens their well-being. After 13-year-old Zemzem was abducted in southern Ethiopia, quick-thinking members of a UNICEF-supported youth group ...

Child marriage is a violation of children’s rights and is detrimental to the lives of children, families, society, and the economy. Unfortunately, it is still quite prevalent in Africa. Young girls ...