March 20, 2017Sold into marriage – how Rohingya girls become child brides in MalaysiaThe slight girl in a turquoise headscarf held back tears as she recalled what happened when she fled […]
March 20, 2017Campaign To End Child Marriage In S. Sudan Launched In JubaSave the Children’s Country Director Mr. Peter Walsh who delivered his speech at the opening ceremony of the […]
March 20, 2017Malawai Changes Law To End Child MarriageMalawi has made a historic amendment to its constitution to fully outlaw child marriage following a year-long campaign […]
March 16, 2017Jasvinder Sanghera: I ran away to escape a forced marriageJasvinder Sanghera was locked in a room by her parents when she was 16, when she refused to […]
March 16, 2017Boris Johnson: The world would be a better place if all girls went to schoolI am always dubious about so-called silver bullets that allegedly solve a host of problems. “Life can’t be […]
March 16, 2017Inside Britain’s sharia councils: hardline and anti-women – or a dignified way to divorce?On a freezing, rainswept Sunday in a conference room in Birmingham Central mosque, a young woman in a […]
March 16, 2017Bangladesh: Legalizing Child Marriage Threatens Girls’ SafetyThe Bangladesh Government should move quickly to adopt regulations to limit the harms of a new law that […]
March 16, 2017Women are suffering globally – we must act nowWe, the members of the scientific and technical advisory group and the gender and rights advisory panel of […]
March 16, 2017Governor Cuomo Announces New Legislation to End Child MarriageGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is advancing new legislation to end child marriage by raising […]
March 13, 20173 Photographs That Tell The Whole Truth About Female Genital Mutilation (NSFW)Elisabeth Ubbe was a young nursing student at a Swedish hospital back in the ‘90s when a doctor […]
March 8, 2017International Women’s Day: Encouragement in Courageous Women and GirlsWritten by Amanda Parker At a recent lecture I attended, AHA Foundation founder Ayaan Hirsi Ali discussed why […]
February 27, 2017Virginia joins global movement to criminalize female circumcisionVirginia’s General Assembly unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on female genital mutilation, criminalizing the procedure with […]
February 23, 2017Massachusetts Bill Criminalizing FGM is in Motion, A Look at AHA from an Intern’s Perspective, Ways You Can Raise Awareness About Women’s Rights, and more…Dear AHA Foundation Supporter, I hope that your 2017 is off to a wonderful start. At the AHA Foundation, […]
February 23, 2017Massachusetts Bill Criminalizing FGM is Gaining Momentum – You Can Help Move It ForwardFGM in the US Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a practice the AHA Foundation has advocated against with […]
February 23, 2017Whether you have 5 Minutes or 1 Hour Every Month – You can make a Difference for Women’s Rights*Photo Credit to Susan Landmann Becoming engaged to make a difference in the fight for women’s rights and […]
February 23, 2017Behind the Scenes of the AHA Foundation – From the Intern’s PerspectiveI came to the AHA Foundation after receiving my Master’s Degree in International Business and Global Studies. I […]
February 20, 2017How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia? – An Oped by Ayaan Hirsi AliOriginally published in The Australian: 12:00AM February 18, 2017 Yassmin Abdel-Magied, an Islamic activist, has been paid by […]
February 20, 2017UN General Assembly Adopts 2nd Resolution on Child, Early, and Forced MarriageOn 19 December 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a second resolution on child, early and […]
February 20, 2017Government to enlist clerics in fight against child marriage in IndonesiaThe government has decided to seek unlikely allies in its struggle to end child marriage: religious leaders, the […]
February 20, 2017Scourge of Child Marriage in Africa Continues“I’ve never experienced happiness in my marriage. I’ve never seen the benefit of being married,” Chimwemwe told me […]