We gave every US state a grade on their child rights laws. The results are alarming. Join HRW and partners to discuss the scorecards and what they mean for child rights in the United States.

What does child marriage mean for girls’ lives? And why does child marriage persist?

New York State’s legislators and governor should back a proposed law to help end child marriage in New York.

Meet the investigators behind Human Rights Watch's work. "These people live with fear all their lives. They have no place to go. I have to tell their story."

Many children in Nepal are seeing their futures stolen from them by child marriage. Nepal’s government promises reform, but in towns and villages across the country, nothing has changed.

In February 2016, the Girls Not Brides team headed out to Zambia to film “We are Girls, Not Brides”, a two-minute music video about ending child marriage.

Child marriage in Africa often ends a girl’s education, exposes her to domestic violence and grave health risks from early childbearing and HIV, and traps her in poverty.

The Bangladesh government is yet to take sufficient steps to end child marriage, in spite of promises to do so. Instead, in steps in the wrong direction, after her July 2014 pledge to end child marriage by 2041, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attempted to lower the age of marriage for girls from 18 to 16 years old, raising serious doubts about her commitment.

Child Marriage Bangladesh: Ali Ahmad