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 ...

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.

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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 ...

JAIPUR, India, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Married before her 18th birthday, Nirma Chaudhary could have ended up like thousands of other child brides in India's desert state of Rajasthan - ...

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. Kamble said he has helped ...