Editor’s Note: Faith Cherop defied traditional gender roles in rural Kenya by convincing her family that girls’ education is ... In my community, child marriage has been practiced for a ...

There are endless studies showing education as a golden key for young girls in the developing world: Just a year of high school can bump up their economic prospects by 25 percent; cut chances of ...

She also stresses the need to safeguard girls' education, whose absence often leads to child marriage. USPS Announces Changes To First-Class Mail, Other Services McDonald’s Brings Back Beloved ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

Education is also linked to child marriage. For adolescent girls in some parts of the world, their parents may choose marriage over education. For them, the discussions of child marriage and ...

UNESCO Member States have come together for the first time on this issue, expressing deep concern over the continuing negative impact on the duration and quality of girls’ education as a result of ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama, human rights attorney Amal Cooney and philanthropist Melinda French Gates advocated for ways to end child marriage in an op-ed on Wednesday. In their Time ...

Twenty countries, which have ratified the CEDAW, have expressed reservations on the article regarding child marriage, turning a blind eye to forced marriage and the denial of the right to education ...

For advocates, the story highlighted the painstaking progress Ethiopia has made in its efforts to confront the issue of child marriage ... of alternatives such as education, employment and ...

According to the Education Ministry’s Student Database Application System, marriage was among the main reasons for rising dropout rates from 2019 to 2023. Children’s Commissioner to the Human ...