The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages involving minors — treating the girls as sellable property. It also ...
A law intended to stamp out child marriage may have had the opposite effect and lead to an increase, new research by King's College London shows. The study is published in The Journal of Law, ...
Ohio legislators are not voting on a bipartisan bill that would ban marriage before the age of 18. Chagrin Falls resident Stephanie Lowry was 16 years old and 16 weeks pregnant when she was forced to ...
Child marriage has long been a problem in Afghanistan. A 2021 UNICEF report estimated that 28% of Afghan women aged 15–49 years were married before the age of 18. A new decree issued by the Taliban's ...
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