The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) officials were quoted saying that the COVID-19 pandemic had caused the number of child marriages to increase in the state.
A woman has filed a petition for nullifying her child marriage as well as all other marriages in Delhi.
“I want to go for higher studies and get a nice job so that I can support my family,” said the girl.
Child marriages see a sharp decline in India and eventually across the globe, according to the latest data from UNICEF. The data suggests that nearly 25 million child marriages were prevented across the world in last decade. The proportion of young women who entered into marriage before the age of 15 has declined from 12 […]
In an interesting turn of events, a young woman proved in court that she was married off as a minor by submitting evidence from her husband’s Facebook page, as per reports. The girl, Sushila Bishnoi, now 19, appealed to a court in Rajasthan to dissolve her underage marriage. Her husband denied the couple were ever […]
When she got married to Shankar Lal at the age of 8, Rupa Yadav probably never thought of having a career ahead. Today, aged 20, Rupa is looking forward to taking up a career in medicine after she cracked the CBSE’s National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) 2017.
Child marriage as an issue is too often brushed off. The amount of awareness around in metro cities makes us believe it is prevalent only in a few states. However, you would be shocked to know that a total of 12 million child marriages have been recorded in the country in a decade. The data has […]
We’d love to say that child marriages in India are a thing of the past, but this is still not true. Around 47% of girls are married off by the time they are 18 years old. The legal age for a girl to get married in India is 18 years, yet half the population of […]
Today’s Google Doodle salutes a woman we all should be proud of. One of India’s early feminists who took bold steps at a time Indian society was discriminatory towards women and treated them as second class citizens. Savitribai Jyotirao Phule was born on 3 January 1831 in Naigaon, Maharashtra. A a social reformer and poet […]
A Delhi High Court hearing on August 29 saw the Centre admit that child marriages are a ‘social reality’ and continue to take place in India, which was why it decided to retain a 1949 law that allows married girls of 15 and over to have sexual relations with their husbands. This is an exception […]
