Meet Nisha and Munna: Two Indian sisters kicking back against child marriage through football

In Padampura village in Rajasthan, 14-year-old Nisha Vaishnav and her 18-year-old sister Munna were at football practice when ...
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19-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom

With the help of a local charity and child marriage activist, 18-year old child bride who was married off at just 11 months finally wins her freedom. After 18 years of persecution, Santadevi Meghwal ...
The Daily Dot

Child marriage is legal in Lebanon, and this video wants to stop it

A staged Lebanese video showing a 12-year-old girl in a wedding dress "married" to a man old enough to be her grandfather has gotten two million views on YouTube as it publicizes the global problem of ...
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Indian child bride married off at 11 months finally granted divorce

Santadevi told the court two years ago that she was married to 28-yr-old Saanval Ram who was nine-yrs-old at the time of their wedding 19-yr-old Santadevi Meghwal from Jodhpur, in the western state of ...
Dawn

New ordinance raises minimum legal age of marriage for females in Punjab to 18, declares child marriage non-bailable offence

Adults contracting marriage with a child will face rigorous imprisonment of up to three years but not less than two years, as ...