India is home to one third of the world’s child brides while South Asia as a whole accounts for 42 percent of the child marriage cases worldwide, according to a new UNICEF report released Tuesday.

MUMBAI, Oct 6 (Reuters) - More than a third of the world's child brides are from India, leaving children at an increased risk of exploitation despite the Asian giant's growing modernity and economic ...

In Rajasthan, India, Munna is playing football to avoid getting married young. Adapted from Assignment from the BBC World Service.

A Rajasthan woman overturns her child marriage, exposing legal gaps and social resistance. Can India end the practice? Learn ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India's Maharashtra state A couple ride ...

BEED - When wedding season comes in India, the phone of child rights activist Tatwashil Kamble never stops ringing with appeals to stop girls from being married off due to poverty. Kamble said he has ...

Jyoti Thorat (left), a sugarcane worker who was married as a child bride, prays with her husband, Ravindra, in their home at Kathoda village in Beed district of India ...

JAIPUR, India, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Married before her 18th birthday, Nirma Chaudhary could have ended up like thousands of other child brides in India's desert state of Rajasthan - ...

Jind: Authorities in Jind district prevented two child marriages within 24 hours, underscoring the continuing prevalence of the practice in parts of the region.In the first case in Jind city, ...