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Over 130 children reported missing every day this year, NCRB data shows

TNN | Jul 24, 2015, 05.20 AM IST NEW DELHI: Over 130 children have been reported missing every day this year. About 15,988 children were reported missing this year till April 2015, of which over half (6,921) were untraced. According to National Crime Records Bureau on an average about one lakh children ..... Read More

Over 130 children reported missing every day this year, NCRB data shows

TNN | Jul 24, 2015, 05.20 AM IST NEW DELHI: Over 130 children have been reported missing every day this year. About 15,988 children were reported missing this year till April 2015, of which over half (6,921) were untraced. According to National Crime Records Bureau on an average about one lakh children ..... Read More

The bane of child marriage

SNS, Berhampore, | 29 June, 2015 Getty Image Priyanka (name changed) is a thirteen year-old orphan girl who is now struggling hard to wriggle out of her proposed marriage. A handicapped woman who has been supporting Priyanka with food and shelter now seems likely to bear the brunt of preventing ..... Read More

Bangladesh: Girls Damaged by Child Marriage

Stop Plan to Lower Marriage Age to 16 EXPAND ..... Read More

What Happens To About 240 Million Girls And Their Partners When They Are Wed As Children?

  Jun 12, 2015 By Aditi Saraswat:  What do you think? What do we do to a child, every time we marry him or her off? Yes, ‘we’ do to a ‘child.’ I use the word ‘we’ because let us stop being hypocritical ..... Read More