THE photo is heartbreaking. A girl, little more than a child herself, proudly holds her baby in her arms. On her wedding finger glints a gold band. For while she may be well below the age of consent, ...

The negative effects of child marriage on the sexual and reproductive health rights of girls are well-documented—including higher risks of maternal mortality for adolescent mothers. “Last year a ...

The photograph shows young relatives of couples getting married at a mass wedding in Gaza Strip. Thousands of people have shared a post that shows a photograph of what it implies are child brides. But ...

A new report released by UNICEF, the children's agency of the UN, says that South Asian countries have the highest number of child brides in the world., The data provided by the agency revealed that ...

Ghada* was 15 when she fell pregnant with her third child. For three years, she had been married to an older man - a man her father had paired her with out of perceived necessity. 'My family is poor,' ...

This heartbreaking footage captured a mass child marriage ceremony where girls as young as five were forced to wed older grooms. Most of the girls were crying but in one distressing clip a 10-year-old ...

Millions of girls across the world end up as child brides, despite the practice being outlawed in many countries. But some girls are defying their families' attempts to marry them off. Some 10 million ...

Thea is 12 years old. She's a seventh-grader at her school in Norway, and she loves riding horses and listening to One Direction. According to her blog, she's also marrying a 37-year-old man this ...

IN Afghanistan, they call it marriage but Scots aid worker Grace Ommer could spot the fear in the eyes of the 13-year-old bride and knew it was simply selling children. Nasima bravely wiped away tears ...

In the first first part of a new series, Sun Online investigates the shocking and harrowing issue of child marriage in the U.S., where almost a quarter of a million children - some as young as 10 - ...