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 | 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 | |
 | Private schools in Karnataka welcome report recommending reopening of schoolsThe report stated that further delay in reopening schools may push children into malnutrition, child labour, child marriage and begging | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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 |
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