Child Marriage

Commissionerate Police today arrested nine accused in connection with brutal attack on media persons, when they were covering a child marriage issue in Khalarda village in Cuttack district. Arrest include the groom’s father and some others…

Bhubaneswar, Nov 20: a state level interface among the tribal communities held on child marriage at IMAGE, Bhubaneswar on Thursday. Leaders of different tribal communities, representative of civil society organisations and INGOs…

Bhubaneswar, 27 July: Child marriage is a major social concern and a violation of children’s rights, whether it happens to a girl or a boy as it denies the basic rights to health, nutrition, education, freedom from violence, abuse and…

United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign, supporing the empowerment of girls everywhere in the world, is expanding its fundraising efforts to help protect the rights of adolescent girls in India. The first new programme support country…

Child Marriage is rampant in the State. However, most of the cases go unreported or unregistered. Then it becomes challenging to trace the practice and take actions to curb this. However, mass awareness and documentation of cases of child…