Child marriage disproportionately affects Colombia’s most vulnerable communities, with rates of between 40 and 65 per cent among rural, Indigenous and Afro-Colombian populations. In some communities, ...

The law addresses a serious issue in Colombia, where one in five girls under 18 and one in 10 under 14 are married or in marriage-like relationships. The law was driven by a coalition of Colombian ...

Colombian lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday which would outlaw child marriage, according to international media reports. The bill passed after 17 years of campaigning from advocacy groups ...