October 19, 2016AHA Donor Spotlight: “I Choose to Support this Organization…Because I Choose to Support Ayaan Hirsi Ali”By Karen Boone I was born in England in 1962, but moved to Nairobi, Kenya when I was […]
October 19, 2016AHA Foundation Trainings: On a Mission to Make the US a Safer Place to Be a GirlA battered but undeterred stay-at-home-mom stashing money into a cereal box to save enough to leave her abusive […]
October 18, 2016Five Things About Honor Violence You Need to Know#1 Not all honor violence results in killings Honor killings are the most extreme form of honor violence. […]
September 20, 2016Sarah Haider, Co-Founder of Ex-Muslims in North America, Shares Her Transition to Atheism and the Need to Look Up to Fathers who Champion Women’s RightsSarah Haider is a Pakistani-born writer and activist who grew up in Texas. A practicing Shia Muslim throughout […]
September 20, 2016Five Questions About Forced Marriage You Were Afraid to Ask1. Why can’t people just say “no” to a marriage? Why is it forced? While we like to […]
September 20, 2016My Escape from Child Marriage to FreedomIn her guest blog, Gabriella Gillespie describes her remarkable escape from a marriage her father forced her into […]
September 11, 2016Free Webinar on Protecting Girls from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the USMore than half a million of girls in the US have undergone or are at risk of being […]
August 17, 2016An Interview with Nazir Afzal, UK’s Chief Executive of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, on Criminalization of Forced MarriageNazir Afzal OBE, honor violence expert from the UK’s Chief Executive of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, […]
August 17, 2016The AHA Foundation Supports the Criminalization of Forced MarriageThroughout the history of the AHA Foundation, we have come down firmly on the side of outlawing and […]
August 17, 2016Dressed in Wedding Veils, Protestors Demand Banning Marriage for Children Under Age of 18Amanda Parker, Interim Executive Director of the AHA Foundation, speaks at the Chain-In. Photo: Susan Landmann This past […]
July 20, 2016An Interview With Hilary Burrage: How She’s Fighting to Stop FGM in the UKHilary Burrage, British sociologist and author, on the fight against FGM: We must never, for one moment, be […]
July 20, 2016A Filmmaker Stands Up to Honor Violence: An Interview with Vibha GulatiVibha at work on set with director Danis Tanovic. When a friend or family member is murdered […]
July 19, 2016Behind the Scenes of the AHA Foundation – From the Intern’s PerspectiveI came to AHA in my senior year of college, with a background in theatre and politics – […]
July 6, 2016A Critical Step in the Fight Against FGM: Agreeing to Abolish All Forms of FGMIn the June 18 issue of “The Economist,” the magazine published two potentially harmful articles about female genital mutilation/cutting […]
June 16, 2016A Former Refugee, Now CEO at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights – Derreck Kayongo Continues to Inspire and Speak with ActionsDerreck Kayongo is head of the Atlanta-based National Center for Civil and Human Rights. With a longstanding career […]
June 15, 2016“I heard things I could not imagine”: a Kenyan Activist Reveals How He Became a Voice Against FGMAs female genital mutilation (FGM) continues to claim lives of women around the world, and at the onset […]
May 24, 2016AHA Foundation’s Executive Director Bids a Farewell, Reflects on Most Inspiring Achievements“From Africa to the Middle East to the U.S., I have met many women and girls who understand […]
May 24, 2016Five Myths About Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) This month, we share with you five common misconceptions about FGM, and ways that you can help […]