Kabul: The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations. The plight of 15-year-old Sahar Gul captivated the nation and set off a storm of international condemnation when it came to light in late December. Gul's husband's father, mother and sister were each sentenced to 10...
04:54 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Taking a serious view of child marriages in the country, the UPA government has decided to hold a national consultation on the issue with the states. A core group has been constituted by the women and child development ministry to organise the first national consultation this year to prevent child marriages, a ministry official said. "National consultation will be held soon. A core group has already been constituted...
06:27 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Jaipur: Yet another teenager has stood up against child marriage in Rajasthan. In Dausa, an eleventh standard student has refused to accept her marriage that took place years ago when she was a little girl. This comes less than a week after 17-year-old Lakshmi from Jodhpur also got her marriage annulled for the same reason. It's a tough battle against her own people but 16-year-old Prem Saini from Dausa has...
07:41 AM, Apr 27, 2012
A UNICEF report on adolescents (between 10 and 19 years of age) titled 'Progress for Children' has revealed that nearly one out of every three girls in countries like India and Pakistan are likely to be married. South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of adolescent married girls. Secondary school enrolment among adolescents is between 50 and 60 per cent in India. India figures in the lowest rung...
07:26 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Jaipur: In Rajasthan child marriages continue to be a rampant practice. But 17-year-old Lakshmi has just stepped out of what seemed like a nightmare. Lakshmi was told only weeks back that she was married off when she was two years old and now she must go to her husband's home. But she has sought the help of social workers to have her illegal marriage annulled. She wants to study, and...
06:41 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Kota: At least 12 government officials were injured after a group of villagers allegedly assaulted and pelted stones at them when they tried to stop them from carrying out child marriages in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district. On a tip-off that about 42 couples - most of them reportedly minors - were being married off in a mass ceremony, a team of district administration and police officers rushed to Prithvepura village late...
09:43 AM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Fifteen-year-old Sangita Bauri never feared her parents and society when she opposed her forcible marriage in a remote village in West Bengal but she trembled when she was honoured in New Delhi by President Pratibha Patil for her feat. Bauri along with two other young girls- Mukti Majhi, Sangita Bauri, Sunita Mahato, Afsana Khatun- met Patil on Wednesday after they were called by the President hearing the tale...
02:28 AM, Dec 08, 2011
UN started a campaign to mobilise 150000 teenagers in the US to file a petition the White House to fight against child marriages worldwide. ...
09:21 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Hyderabad: A cruel and medieval tradition of poor Dalit girls, forcefully married off to the village deity and then sexually abused by the men in the village, still continues in Andhra Pradesh. But there is one woman standing up to it. Grace Nirmala helps rescue these girls and runs a home for joginis and their children. Anjali was just 10 years of age when her parents forced her to become...
08:48 AM, Aug 08, 2011
On this episode of 'Real Heroes' we bring you the voices of change from the east of India. ...
05:44 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Purulia: Fourteen-year-old Bina Kalindi, a resident of West Bengal's Purulia district is fighting the illegal but still prevalent practice of Child Marriages. In the land of the powerful Goddess, her daughters are helpless. Even before they can realize, child marriage or 'ballo vivaho' abruptly ends their childhood and they are forced to walk into a life of unimaginable horrors. Sixteen-year-old Saraswati was married off at the age of 12 years....
08:51 AM, Jul 25, 2011
Jaipur: The illegal practice of child marriage is rampant in Rajasthan. Those opposing it are either ostracised from villages or threatened. A 5-year old girl from Farkiya village in Ajmer was married off to her 8-year old groom on May 16. But hers was far from the only child marriage that took place in the month of May in Rajasthan. In the same village, this government school allegedly was the...
10:18 AM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Staring - seemingly into the Rajasthan government's claims of having curbed child marriages - is this five-year old bride from Farkiya village in Ajmer. She was married off to her eight-year old groom on May 16. But hers was far from the only child marriage that took place in the month of May in Rajasthan. In the same village, a government school allegedly was the venue of two...
09:14 AM, Jun 02, 2011
The step is being seen by legal experts as an attempt at legalising the practice. ...
09:59 AM, Jan 22, 2010
Nearly 25 million women who married in 2007 younger than 18. ...
03:50 PM, Oct 06, 2009
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