child marriage

Discover how three changemakers are using social media to drive social change — raising funds, solving grievances, and preventing child marriages.

Suheil Tandon started Pro Sport Development (PSD) which works across 15 states in India and has reached out to 11,412 young people, redefining gender norms using sports.

Founded in 2002, Shaheen in Old Hyderabad city is the brainchild of Jameela Nishat. They have provided legal, financial and emotional support to domestic violence survivors, enrolled students back into schools, provided vocational training to women and stopped child marriages.

IAS, IPS, IFS: Meet the 12 officers whose exemplary work in 2021 ensured that we picked them for our 'Excellence in Public Service' yearender list.

The Union Cabinet has introduced a bill to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. Here are four initiatives by IAS officers, local communities and civil society that show us how this can be done better.

Thianal village in Odisha is the second village in the state to attain this status and the first in its district. A people's initiative has prevented children below the legal age to wed.

Behramji Merwanji Malabari was a Parsi poet and journalist who advocated for the rights of Indian women for most of his life, especially in the case of Rukhmabai. His efforts led to the passage of the Age of Consent Act, 1891.

Born amid severe physical abuse and neglect, 32-year-old Dr Kriti Bharti from Jodhpur heads the Saarthi Trust, and has helped annul 41 child marriages and stopped over 1,400 such weddings from taking place. She was responsible for India’s first child marriage annulment - the Laxmi Sargara case.

Many wonder if such a law can even be enforced. We have 5 inspirations to prove it can.

“The working of the Constitution will depend upon how the people will conduct themselves in the future, not on the actual execution of the law. So, I hope that in the course of time there will not be such a community known as Untouchables.”