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

In the first incident, the child marriage of a 15-year-old girl was stopped just in the nick of time when the officials ...

Jind: Authorities in Jind district prevented two child marriages within 24 hours, underscoring the continuing prevalence of ...

Though illegal, child marriage is widely practiced in India. UNICEF’s latest estimate is that 216 million girls and women in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Rajasthan, teenager Payal Jangid defied tradition by refusing her child marriage at 15. Her courageous act sparked a movement, transforming her into a prominent young voice advocating against child ...

A woman in Jodhpur, India, successfully annulled her marriage, which was solemnised when she was 12 years old, after a court ...

Across the developing world, ten million girls are married off each year before the age of eighteen, usually against their will. One in seven of those girls is younger than fifteen. In some places ...

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...