07/04/2010
A 12-year-old girl died three days after marrying a man in his 20s in Hajja, north of Yemen. The bride died in the hospital, where she was admitted after suffering acute bleeding caused by sexual intercourse
14/3/2010
An 11-year-old Malaysian girl was hospitalised in a state of shock in Kuala Lumpur, after allegedly being abducted by a man 41 year-old, who persuaded her parents to let him marry her.
02/2/2010
A 12-year-old Saudi girl unexpectedly gave up her petition for divorce from an 80-year-old man, her father forced her to marry in exchange for a dowry.
11/09/2009
A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, has died during a difficult delivery in which her baby also died.
29/04/2009
An eight-year-old girl who was sold into marriage by her father has been given a divorce after an international outcry over the case. The marriage took place last year.
30/10/2008
Pakistani police raided a child marriage ceremony in the city of Karachi and arrested a cleric who was presiding over the wedding of a 4-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy.
06/8/2008
An 11-year-old boy gave out invitations to his classmates for his wedding to a 10-year-old cousin in Riyadh.
15/04/2008
A Yemeni court granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl Nujood Ali, whose unemployed father forced her into an arranged marriage this year, saying he feared she might be kidnapped.
09/2/2007
A four-year-old girl was married to a 45-year-old man in a remote Pakistan town to settle a feud, leading to the arrest of 12 people from two families. The bizarre marriage took place last month on the orders of a Punchayat or tribal council in northwestern Dera Ismail Khan.
16/12/2006
The Rajya Sabha, or upper house of India's Parliament, approved the legislation. The legislation has to be approved by the Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament, to become law. Priests and others could face up to two years in jail and a fine of Rs100,000 (Dh8.074) for marrying minors.
1305/2005
Ignoring laws that ban child marriages, hundreds of children, some as young as seven years old, were married in a centuries-old custom in Rajgarh, about 105 kilometres northwest of Bhopal, India.
11/05/2005
A man with a sword cut off both hands of a government official in in the Bhangarh village for trying to stop child marriages. Child marriage is illegal in India, but the ancient practice is still prevalent in some rural pockets of Madhya Pradesh.
10/05/2005
Police arrested a 12-year-old bridegroom, his 10-year-old bride and 20 other people in a northern Indian village on charges of promoting child marriage during a Hindu wedding ceremony in Nangla Hareru, a village nearly 80km northeast of New Delhi.
14/05/2003
A 12-year-old girl was beaten by twice-married husband thrice her age for spurning him on wedding night. She lies alone in Kasur hospital,in Pakistan her legs broken, her feet swollen and her head and arm swathed in bandages.
25/02/2003
A six-month-old girl and three-year-old boy were married in Nepal, marking their eternal union by being breastfed by their mothers in the southern Terai region, Nepal.
24/04/2002
Nearly 3,000 children have been married off during a Hindu festival in the central Indian state of Chattisgarh. Most of the children were between four and 13 years old and did not even know the name of the partners to whom they were being married.
07/12/2002
A 15-year-old boy was married to a 10-year-old girl in this northern Indian town, Meerat in violation of the Child Marriage Act, following which 20 people, including the groom, were arrested.
15/03/2001
Police have arrested an 80-yearold man and his 13-year-old child bride in Nepal. The parents of bride agreed she could marry retired Indian army recruit, after he said he would sign over his pension following his death. The area police office arrested the couple on charges of unmatched marriage and initiated necessary legal action.
