March 28, 2018Penn State Students Fight to End FGM From Their ClassroomsA group of talented and determined students from Penn State’s Dickinson Law have taken up the challenge of […]
March 27, 2018A Survivor Shares: When Female Genital Cutting Occurs, Childhood Ends and Trauma Begins** Please note the photo above is a stock photo and not a photo of the survivor. It […]
February 20, 2018By Educating Legislators Across the Nation, Alex Still Helps Protect Girls in the U.S. from FGMAHA Foundation: Alexandra Still is our Program and Policy Associate. Alex researches cultural practices that harm women and girls in […]
February 20, 2018AHA Foundation Campus Program Fellow Breaks Silence About FGM at Vassar CollegeOriginally published 2/20/2018 AHA Foundation Campus Program Fellow Breaks Silence About FGM at Vassar College Grace Roebuck is […]
February 20, 2018Muhammad Fraser-Rahim Counters Extremism From Within Muhammad Fraser-Rahim is the Executive Director of North America for Quilliam International. He is an expert on […]
January 25, 2018AHA Foundation Intern Shares Her Experience of Working to Make the U.S. a Safer Place to Be a GirlAfter two years of working with the AHA Foundation, our intern Bree Dyer is leaving for another work […]
January 25, 2018Survivor of a Forced Marriage, Fraidy Reiss, Works to End Child Marriage in America’s NeighborhoodsFraidy Reiss is the Founder and Executive Director of Unchained At Last, the AHA Foundation’s sister organization that […]
January 23, 2018AHA Foundation’s Most Popular Blog Posts of 2017With the new year, we invite you to look back with us and catch up on the AHA […]
December 20, 2017AHA Foundation 2017 Annual Report Celebrating 10 Years of Life-Saving Workand Revealing the Vision for the Next Ten YearsTen years ago, Ayaan Hirsi Ali founded the AHA Foundation to protect women and girls from honor violence […]
December 12, 2017Dr. Mwangi-Powell Leads African Anti-FGM Initiative, Believes the Practice Can be Stopped in One GenerationDr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, MSc, Ph.D., is the Global Director for The Girl Generation, a ten-country social change communication […]
December 11, 2017Trapped in A Marriage with an Al-Qaeda Operative, Yasmine Fought Back for the Sake of Her DaughterYasmine Mohammed is an Arab-Canadian college instructor, activist, podcaster and writer. Yasmine shares her story of growing up […]
November 22, 2017Activist and Survivor of FGM, F.A. Cole, Refuses to be Silent About the Night She was MutilatedOriginally published on November 17, 2018 Activist and Survivor of FGM, F.A. Cole, Refuses to be Silent About […]
November 21, 2017Not Comfortable with How Female Genital Mutilation is Shown in Photos, A Swedish Photographer Applies a New ApproachElisabeth Ubbe is an award-winning photojournalist who strives to highlight issues that are taboo to create conversation and […]
November 1, 2017 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Awarded the Oxi Day Courage AwardWe are proud to share that our Founder, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, was awarded the Oxi Day Courage Award […]
October 30, 2017Representative Dave Trott Fights for Stronger Legislation Against Female Genital Mutilation, “I want to ensure our girls are safe”The AHA Foundation was honored to sit down with Representative Dave Trott’s office last month to discuss the […]
October 30, 2017William and Mary Law Professor Warns Child Marriage Robs American Youth of Education and ProsperityThis month, the AHA Foundation spoke with William & Mary Law Professor, Vivian Hamilton. Professor Hamilton received her […]
October 30, 2017Award-winning Playwright Tackles Ideas of Free Speech and Dangers of ExtremismNatalie Menna is an actress and the playwright of the award-winning play Committed, a historical fiction depicting the […]
October 10, 2017Faisal Saeed Al Mutar at University of Maryland, College Park, “Freedom of Expression in the Arab World”Event Description: Faisal Saeed al-Mutar was born in Iraq and admitted to the United States as a refugee […]
September 20, 2017Update on the First Female Genital Mutilation Case in the U.S. – Trial Postponed as More Charged in CaseTheodore Levin Courthouse, Detroit, Michigan. Photo by: C Hanchey and can be found here. United States of America v. […]
September 20, 2017A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow is Not Afraid to Do the Right Thing to Combat Forced MarriageLaura Vidal, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow Laura Vidal is a Social Worker with a Masters in Human […]