All of these girls have been rescued from child marriages and sexual violence. Mozambique has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. Around half of all girls aged between 18 and ...

The agency said the problem was now most severe in Africa but even so, Ethiopia had cut child marriage rates by a third. India Supreme Court rules sex with child bride is rape Is a child bride ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are ...

Former South African President Jacob Zuma could be retired, but his heart is reportedly all in on a new bride. Wedding bells ... given birth to Zuma’s 23rd child at a private hospital in Durban.

Colombia has just marked a historic milestone in the global campaign against child marriage, with the Senate passing one of Latin America and the Caribbean’s most comprehensive bans on child marriage ...