GistReel California has officially banned child marriage after Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation setting 18 as the minimum age for marriage in the state. The new law, AB 1267, was signed by Newsom on Wednesday, September 30, and will take effect on January 1, 2027. It removes previous provisions that allowed min…

…often, children who are victims of violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect, trafficking, child marriage, harmful traditional practices, or who come into conflict with the law find themselves without adequate legal support when they need it most. “For these children, lack of legal representation is a failure on our part.…

Troops rescue woman abducted by terrorists in 2017 in Borno and forced into child marriage Troops of the 82 Division Task Force Battalion, operating under Operation HADIN KAI and Operation DESERT SANITY V, have rescued a woman and her two children during a perimeter clearance patrol around Amuda Bridge in Borno State.…

…plans to sharpen its child protection interventions in Nigeria, placing child abuse, child marriage and poor birth registration at the centre of its new country strategy as it seeks to reach millions of vulnerable children still excluded from essential services. The organisation said the new priorities would shape its…

…Union has condemned the incidents of kidnapping, forced religious conversion, and child marriage in Pakistan, demanding the protection of girls in the South Asian nation. The EU Parliament highlighted the case of 13-year-old Maria Shahbaz, a Pakistani Christian girl who was abducted, converted to Islam, and forcibly ma…