All eyes are on Yemen as local leadership revisits overwhelming pressure to pass and legally uphold child bride minimum age laws. In the shadow of the death of an 8 year-old child bride who died on her wedding night from internal injuries caused by sexual trauma from her 40 year old husband, Yemen’s Prime Minister Mohammed Basindawa says investigations …

Malawi has passed a law banning child marriage, raising the minimum age to 18 in a country where half of girls end up as child brides. Women rights campaigners hailed the move as “a great day for Malawian girls” and said the law would help boost development in one of the world’s poorest countries. But they warned Malawi would not end …

Aracely was 11 when she married her husband, who was 34. Now 15, she is raising her son on her own. “I thought I’d have a better life. But at the end, it didn’t turn out that way”. — Aracely, 15   Guatemala, the legal age of marriage is 14 with parental consent, but in Petén, in the northern part of the country, the law seems …