Tag: Child marriage

The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seeks to raise the age of legal marriage for women from ...

Chhatrapur: Ganjam district will be free of child marriage from January. An announcement to this effect will be made soon. ...

Berhampur: The Ganjam district administration in Odisha has formed a forum of adolescent girls, who have stopped their marriages before ...

Kabul: Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore has voiced deep concern about Afghan girls increasingly at risk of child marriage in ...

Berhampur: Over 1,000 villages and 126 more wards of the urban areas in Odisha's Ganjam district have been declared free ...

Jaipur: Married at the age of just seven, a 19-year-old 'Balika Vadhu' of Rajasthan's Bhilwara district finally got freedom from ...

Bhubaneswar: The Women and Child Development (W&CD) department has directed all district child protection officers (DCPOs) to sensitise people about ...

Bhubaneswar: School of Women Studies, Utkal University in collaboration with Oxfam India organised a youth festival "Empowerment Not Age" under ...

Rajamundry: A minor boy and a girl stealthily married in a government junior college in the city sometime in November, the ...

Sonepur: In a first, seven villages out of 43 villages identified as most vulnerable in terms of child marriage in ...