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Sold as a child bride, escaped at 15: How Payal Jangid became the voice against child marriage
In a village in Rajasthan where child marriage was once seen as tradition rather than unlawful, resistance was almost unthinkable. Yet one teenager chose to say no. Payal Jangid, who was once expected ...
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Woman was about to be a child bride, but then she discovered the internet and became TikTok famous. Now, she does what she wants
Although it has decreased significantly, in Asian households until a few years ago, a lot of emphasis was placed on the ...
On 14 January 2014, a 14-year-old girl by the name of Kader (ironically, her name means “fate” in Turkish) was laid to rest in the Pervari district of Siirt, Turkey. She shared the same fate as ...
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, ...
When Ruth Johnson was 14 years old, she was swinging in the backyard when she suddenly heard her dad call her into the house.
When Kary was just 13, her parents tried to force her into marriage with a boy in her village in Cambodia. Kary, a proud Indigenous woman from the Praov ethnic group in Ratanakiri province, refused.
NEW YORK -- A disturbing issue that affects many girls in our area is being forced into marriage when they are underage. It might surprise you that thousands of girls under the age of 18 are getting ...
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 ...
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