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  • Taliban ‘legitimising child marriage’ with new law, activists warn
  • Taliban forces 10-year-old Afghan girls into marriage
  • Child marriage with parental consent is still legal in Wisconsin

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

Taliban ‘legitimising child marriage’ with new law, activists warn

Up to 70% of girls may be in early or forced marriages but law now makes divorce impossible if husbands disagreeChild marriage appears to have been legally recognised for the first...

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asia.nikkei.com /4 weeks ago

Taliban forces 10-year-old Afghan girls into marriage

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isthmus.com /1 month ago

Child marriage with parental consent is still legal in Wisconsin

Nearly 300 16- and 17-year-olds were married in Wisconsin over the past decade.

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tass.com /1 month ago

Afghanistan lowers legal age of marriage for girls to nine years old — newspaper

The article noted that the government has effectively abolished the minimum marriage age for girls by linking the possibility of marriage to the onset of puberty

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anglicanmainstream.org /1 month ago

In Afghanistan, the practice of selling daughters to older men for financial gain has become a normalised response to de...

by Eliana Silver, Daily Mail Parwana Malik was just nine years old when her father sold her as a bride to a man in his 50s, desperate to find enough money to feed his family. As te...

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borgenproject.org /3 weeks ago

Child Marriage in Honduras

Honduras, a country in Central America, has a legacy of child marriage, especially the marriage of young girls. Historically, some rural communities normalized child marriage in Ho...

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jang.com.pk /1 month ago

دادو میں 12 سالہ بچی کی شادی رکوا دی گئی

— فائل فوٹو دادو میں نیو سبزی منڈی میں 12 سال کی بچی کی شادی رکوا دی گئی۔ایس ایس پی کے مطابق 12 سال کی بچی کی شادی 22 سال کے لڑکے سے کروائی...

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theguardian.com /1 day ago

‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage

Afghanistan is seeing a resurgence in underage brides and mothers as desperate families sell their children in order to eatSima* is 18, but has already given birth four times. Her...

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borgenproject.org /3 weeks ago

Education Leads Reform in Preventing Child Marriage in India

Child marriage remains a significant challenge in India with an estimated 1.5 million girls under 18 married each year. India also reports some of the highest adolescent marriage r...

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thehindu.com /2 weeks ago

Man gets 20 years RI for child marriage, rape

Court orders substantial monetary compensation to be paid to the victim to aid her rehabilitation

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enews.hamariweb.com /1 month ago

Islamabad Child Marriage Law 2025 Under Fire in Sharia Court Petition

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan has formally challenged the Islamabad Capital Territory Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2025 in the Federal Sharia Court, arguing that several of it...

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express.pk /2 weeks ago

18 سال سے کم عمر شادی کو جرم قرار دینا خلافِ شریعت ہے،  قانون چیلنج کردیا گیا

پنجاب چائلڈ میرج ریسٹرینٹ آرڈیننس 2026 کی شق 2(ڈی)، شق 3 اور دیگر متعلقہ دفعات آئین سے متصادم ہیں، درخواست گزار

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jurist.org /1 month ago

UN Child Rights Committee condemns Afghan decree legitimizing child marriage

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday condemned Afghanistan’s Taliban government for adopting a new decree that legitimizes child marriage and treats a minor female...

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borgenproject.org /1 month ago

Child Marriage in Hawaii: 5 Key Steps Toward Reform

While legal loopholes have historically allowed child marriage to persist in the United States, Hawaii is currently witnessing a powerful wave of advocacy and legislative evolution...

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irishexaminer.com /4 weeks ago

My mother was a child bride — this cannot still be happening to girls in Afghanistan

Mahbooba Faiz grew up hearing about her mother's shock and horror at being married at just 10 years old. As the Taliban reintroduces child marriage in Afghanistan, she urges the wo...

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haaretz.com /3 weeks ago

Israel police raid northern community over suspected illegal child marriages

Police say ceremonies were held in secret with restricted attendance and mobile-phone bans, while welfare and hospital data reportedly identified over 20 cases of minors who gave b...

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borgenproject.org /2 days ago

Updates on Progress Against Child Marriage in Barbados

Globally, 12 million girls are married before the age of 18 each year. While international momentum to end the practice is growing, progress in the Caribbean has been slower. In Ba...

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thehindu.com /6 days ago

Man sent to 20 years RI for raping minor

Courts hands out jail term to survivor’s parents and husband for facilitating child marriage

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volkskrant.nl /1 month ago

Nieuwe wet van de Taliban impliceert dat kindhuwelijken zijn toegestaan; ‘zwijgen is instemmen met een huwelijk’

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

New Taliban Decree on Divorce Formalizes Child Marriage in Afghanistan, U.N. Warns

A new Afghan law requires girls to wait until puberty before seeking to get out of a marriage. It also requires mediation for women seeking to escape an abusive husband.

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wowktv.com /1 week ago

West Virginia child marriage laws lag behind neighboring states

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) -- One-third of U.S. states have banned marriage for those under 18 with limited or no exceptions.   With Pennsylvania and Virginia banning child marriage...

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dailymail.com /1 month ago

Afghan father says he may sell his seven-year-old daughter into marriage... because it will feed his family for four yea...

A desperate Afghan father has admitted he is planning on selling his seven-year-old daughter into marriage as it will feed his family for four years. 

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wkbn.com /1 month ago

Bill banning child marriage stalled in Ohio Senate

Current Ohio law allows 17 year olds to get married under certain circumstances, and in January, state Sens. Bill DeMora (D-Columbus) and Louis Blessing III (R-Colerain Twp.) intro...

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wkbn.com /5 days ago

Vinton County case sparks renewed interest in Ohio child marriage law

While it has been difficult to put together a paper trail for the Siders family, and for the 16 children removed from the Siders home in Hamden on June 30, records indicate that El...

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