child marriage
Gülmay Gümüşhan is fighting to end child marriage in Turkey, one business at a time.
These Cambodian women were promised a better life in China. Instead, they became pawns in a flourishing bride market.
A new report finds the practice of adults marrying girls as young as 12 is rampant across the U.S., despite evidence it threatens lifelong harm.
The declaration came at the end of a three-day conference of female Islamic clerics.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The two-year conflict has devastated the country and caused the practice to skyrocket.
“Marriage cuts off the dreams of young girls," says Memory Banda, the teen who helped raise the legal age to wed in Malawi.
In Niger, 76 percent of girls marry before they turn 18.
The British actress visited Malawi to address the issue ahead of International Day of the Girl.
