This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are ...

Over the next decade, 10 million more girls have been put at risk of becoming child brides as a result of Covid, a new Unicef report shows. According to Unicef estimates, even before the pandemic ...

India Supreme Court rules sex with child bride is rape Is a child bride really married every seven seconds? Indian teenager's plea to annul her child marriage Anju Malhotra, Unicef's principal ...

Adapted from Albawaba Al Nahar, Lebanon, has reported that an eight-year-old child bride died in Yemen on her wedding night after suffering internal injuries due to sexual trauma. Human rights ...