Four Indian states have vaccinated every 14-year-old girl they identified against HPV, the virus behind almost all cervical cancer. India’s free, single-dose campaign has passed eight million vaccinations since February. Mizoram, in India’s north-east, has...
The first International Day for the Elimination of Child, Early and Forced Marriage falls on 27 November 2026. Sierra Leone led the UN resolution creating it, and countries from Sierra Leone to Colombia have already banned marriage under 18. On 27 November 2026,...
UNICEF estimates that education, legal reform and social protection have averted 68 million child marriages over the past 25 years. Yet about 650 million women and girls alive today were married in childhood, and the agency marked the International Day of the Girl by...
