NEW DELHI - The family of a 19-year-old Indian girl has been ostracised and fined 1.6 million rupees (2.4M) by a village council after she rejected a marriage arranged when she was a baby, the girl ...

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 ...

o A child bride from India who was married off to her groom at 11 months old has had her marriage dissolved. 19-yr-old Santadevi Meghwal from Jodhpur, in the western state of Rajasthan, in India, was ...

India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

MUMBAI, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child brides being beaten by their husbands will no longer be included in India's biggest survey of domestic violence - potentially hiding the problem ...

A crackdown on illegal child marriages in India's northeast has resulted in nearly 5,000 arrests, after 416 people were detained in the latest police sweep, a minister said on Dec. 22. "We will ...

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MUMBAI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - More than a third of the world's child brides are from India, leaving children at an increased risk of exploitation despite the Asian giant's growing modernity and economic ...

When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty.