- Search results for child marriage
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 | 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 | |
 | Delhi HC seeks govt's response on plea seeking to declare child marriages as 'void-ab-initio'Through the petition, the petitioner sought a declaration that her marriage was void-ab-initio. In law, the term void-ab-initio means "to be treated as invalid from the outset" | |
 | Girl Child Day: NCRB data reveals pending cases on child marriage increase 11x in the past decadeThe total number of cases every year, the cases worked on and the pending cases have moved almost on the same path over the decade. As the incidence increased, so did the productivity of the police | |
 | Karnataka Government cancels Dasara holidays for school kids, Vidyagama classes to continueIn a webinar with the minister, representatives of teachers and lecturers associations are said to have expressed their concerns about children slipping into child marriage, child labour and gambling | |
 | Indonesia revises marriage law, 19 is now the minimum age for girls to get marriedThe previous minimum marriage age was 16 for girls and 19 for boys, and if parents wanted to authorise younger girls for marriage, there was no minimum age | |
 | Odisha constitutes new task force to check child marriages in the stateChild marriage is the main reason for high rates of infant mortality, maternal mortality and malnutrition, Koraput Collector Madhusudan Mishra said. | |
 | Child Grooms: Around 115 million underage boys married off, says UNICEF reportOf these, 1 in 5 children, or 23 million, were married before the age of 15. Using data from 82 countries, the study reveals that child marriage among boys is prevalent across a range of countries | |
 | After anonymous tip, Childline stops a 17-year-old girl from being married off to settle father's financial woesAccording to sources, due to the illness of the victim's father, family members had planned to arrange a marriage for the minor girl with a 25-year-old man | |
 | Chuppi Tod app launched in Bihar against child marriage, sexual harassmentPrince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the first openly gay prince in India, also lauded the Chuppi Tod strategy and said that he missed the much needed safe space being provided | |
 | Four residential schools being proposed in tribal areas of KrishnagiriThe RSTCs are also expected to prevent children from dropping out, discourage child marriages, the practice of child labour and to uplift the status of tribal people in the hilly areas | |
 | Women and Child Development Ministry set to move cabinet to make all child marriages invalidCurrently, child marriages are valid in India and can be annulled if a case is filed by either parties within two years of becoing an adult, or through gaurdians for minors | |
 | Young girls in Bihar are using this app to fight child marriage and dowry abuseBandhan Tod is India's first ever app to successfully prevent child marriage. This UN-backed mobile-app has rescued many young girls minutes before they are married off at an early age | |
 | These tribal teens in Odisha escaped child marriage. Now, they're helping others beat itTeens from Odisha shared their story at a community radio programme organised recently by Unicef along with SOVA, a voluntary organisation that had stopped 20 child marriages in past two years | |
 | She is not your usual teacher. Pakki Roja helps underprivileged children who aren’t exposed to the outside world and motivates others to join the NSSProfessor and NSS programme officer, Pakki Roja encourages her students to go out into the community and organises camps to educate youngsters on the ill-effects of child marriage and addiction |
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