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Senate passes bill declaring child marriage as illegal on final reading

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 10 10:35 AM

The Senate on Monday unanimously approved a bill that criminalizes child marriages in the Philippines. Read more »

Senate approves on second reading bill declaring child marriage as illegal

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 12 09:47 PM

The Senate on Monday passed on second reading a bill that declares child marriage as illegal in the Philippines. Read more »

Lawmakers urged to ban child marriage in Britain

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 07 02:51 AM

LONDON - Britain is sabotaging girls' futures and condoning child sex abuse by failing to scrap an "anachronistic" law allowing child marriage, a lawmaker told parliament on Tuesday as she presented a bill to criminalize marriage under 18. Read more »

Study: COVID-19 pandemic puts half a million more girls at risk of child marriage

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 07:24 PM

The new report also showed as many as one million more girls are expected to become pregnant.   Read more »

Children having children in Palawan: Bill filed to seek end to child marriages

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 05 07:00 PM

Children as young as 9 are having kids of their own, according to Sen. Risa Hontiveros, who sponsored a bill that sought to end child marriages in the country. Read more »

Outrage after Malaysian man marries 11-year-old Thai girl

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 01 05:21 PM

The marriage of a Malaysian man with a 11-year-old Thai girl has sparked outrage in the Muslim majority country with one activist Sunday labeling the groom a "child predator". Read more »