and campaigns such as Child Marriage-Free India aim to end the practice, enforcement gaps and deep-rooted social norms allow it to continue.

For 17-year-old Payal Jangid, her fight against child marriage in her native India is personal. The teen — who last week was recognized at the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Awards with the ...

Krishna, 14, holds her four-month-old baby at her house in a village near Baran, India. Krishna was married ... One of these goals is ending child marriage. Today, 15 million girls marry every ...

Child marriage spans continents, language, religion, caste. In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries with high ...