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.

In Rajasthan, India, Munna is playing football to avoid getting married young. Adapted from Assignment from the BBC World ...

When 15-year-old Geeta Jadhav disappeared from her home during last year’s monsoon, her teacher, Suvarna Gaikwad, already knew what had happened. Geeta had been married off to Prashant Koli, a boy ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A ruling by India's top court criminalizing sex with underage brides could prevent thousands of girls being trafficked and sold on the pretext of marriage, ...

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 ...

In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager ch.