Tag: Child marriage

The Wa East District Education Directorate and the Ghana Police service have rescued Ms. Gladys Bassah, a 17-year-old Junior High ...

Traditional leaders have joined forces with parents in the Sissala East and West areas in the Upper West Region to ...

The Central Region, ranked as the second highest region with high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in the country, has started ...

Restoring the power of summons to traditional rulers was a surest way to ending the menace of child marriages in ...

Thirty-nine (39) basic school girls have been impregnated in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region in the ...

Thirty-nine (39) basic school girls have been impregnated in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region in the ...

An Indian teenager sent to live with a much older husband who she married aged just 11 has returned to ...

World Vision International Ghana has launched a national campaign in Tamale codenamed, “End child marriage now! It Takes Us All.” ...

New York, the fourth most populous state in America, updated antiquated legislation on Tuesday to outlaw children as young as ...

Madam Mary Konney, the Banda District Chief Executive, said forced and early marriages impede girl-child education in the area with ...

Queen mothers in the Ashanti region are considering reintroducing puberty rites to curb the high rate of teenage pregnancies in ...

State agencies, such as the Social Welfare Department, have been urged to speed up processes intended to curtail child marriages. ...

The chief of Sagnarigu in the Northern Region, Naa Yakubu Abdulai has declared zero tolerance for child marriage within his ...

Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia have issued an unprecedented fatwa against child marriage. The fatwa, which is not legally binding ...

Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia declared a series of fatwas Thursday, including one to tackle child marriage, a rare example ...

The conflict in Yemen has made women and girls more vulnerable to gender-based violence, with more than 10,000 cases reported ...

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba, wants more public support to end child marriage in ...

Henceforth, any parent in the Jirapa District who gives out his or her daughter who is less than 18 years ...

Rights groups on Tuesday criticised a controversial new child marriage law in Bangladesh which allows children as young as 14 ...

Police in Jirapa have arrested two men from Tampaala community in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region, for ...