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![]() | Pandemic, and financial struggles fuel rise in child marriages in Andhra PradeshAt a review meeting for the Nadu-Nedu scheme, Bapatla collector revealed 610 children from the district are not in school and child marriages continue, particularly among girls aged 12 to 15 | |
![]() | Student Police Cadets say no to child marriage and human trafficking in their new international campaignThe three-month campaign is being piloted in India and Ghana in Africa with the support of Mission Better Tomorrow and the Kalinga Fellowship | |
![]() | Educating girls upto intermediate level can reduce child marriages: CSD StudyThe incidence of child marriage is high in the poorest and poorer wealth quintiles across the states and at the national level | |
![]() | Odisha: More than 7,000 adolescent girls dropped out of school in 2021-22, says WCD surveyInterestingly, districts like Boudh, Cuttack, Deogarh, Jajpur, Kandhamal, Kendrapara and Sonepur have less than five dropouts | |
![]() | Tamil Nadu government to order school heads to submit long absentees details to crack down on child marriagesCompared to 2019 to 2020 there was increase in number of reported child marriage cases in the state | |
![]() | Bill to increase marriage age for women to 21 years introduced in Lok Sabha, referred to Parliamentary panelThe House was later adjourned for the day amid continuous protests by opposition members over various issues, including the Lakhimpur Kheri killings | |
![]() | NFHS 5: Every fourth woman aged 20-24 fell prey to child marriage even as percentage dropsThe percentage of women who ever experienced spousal violence was highest in Tamil Nadu (38.1 per cent), followed by Uttar Pradesh (34.8 per cent), Jharkhand (31.5 per cent), Odisha (30.6 per cent) | |
![]() | Krishnagiri to start a child marriage awareness programme this month; 61 incidents stopped in 2021A one-month awareness programme will be conducted across the district especially in schools, from October 18 | |
![]() | Childbirth in Karnataka's Udupi highlights prevalence of child marriages in several districts of the stateMost of the POCSO cases registered in Udupi district were due to child marriages involving couple from other districts, an activist from Karkala taluk of Udupi told The New Indian Express | |
![]() | How Odisha girl Manju Patra is standing up to her community to stop children from being married offAccording to the the last census, Odisha ranks 13 on the list of high prevalence of child marriage where more than 4 lakh were married between the age of 10 to 19 and 80 per cent of them were females | |
![]() | Allahabad High Court refuses to give custody of minor husband to wifeThe petitioner mother's plea was that the minor boy did not have the legal competence to marry the girl and the marriage was void, as per law | |
![]() | Child marriages in Tamil Nadu might increase even more in 2021. And the reasons will shock youThe trend so far indicates that there might be an even bigger spike in the number of child marriages in Tamil Nadu in May as compared to 2020 | |
![]() | School closure due to COVID-19n has triggered rise in child marriages in NilgirisActing on a tip-off, the district authorities last week stopped five such marriages, Innocent Divya said and warned of stringent legal action against those involved in the offence | |
![]() | India among five countries that account for half the number of child brides in the world: UNICEFWorldwide, an estimated 650 million girls and women alive today were married in childhood, with about half of those occurring in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India and Nigeria | |
![]() | Women's Day: From child marriage to MPhil: Here's the inspiring story of Sunita Chauhan and her love for educationSunita Chauhan was married off and sent to Delhi in 1993. Now, an MPhil student, she runs an NGO that helps teach underprivileged children |
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