March 17, 2018National campaign to end child marriages arrives in Louisiana; backers say state law must change – The Acadiana Advocate(The Acadiana Advocate) – Amanda Parker, senior director of the AHA Foundation, which is also dedicated to ending […]
March 15, 2018 Yasmine Mohammed at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “From Al-Qaeda to Atheism”Event Description: Yasmine is an Arab-Canadian college instructor, activist, podcaster and writer. Yasmine shares her story of growing […]
March 9, 2018Florida Moves to Ban Marriage Before the Age of 17 – PBS(FRONTLINE) – Florida has moved to tighten its laws on child marriage. On Friday, state lawmakers passed a […]
February 8, 201868 Million Girls May Face Female Genital Mutilation by 2030, U.N. Chief Warns – TIME(UNITED NATIONS) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that without accelerated action 68 million girls could be […]
February 6, 2018International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM Media ReleaseMEDIA RELEASE TIME’S UP ON POLITICAL STALEMATE AROUND FGM IN MAINE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FEMALE […]
February 6, 2018Global event calling for end to FGM to start here – IndependentA worldwide social media campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM) is being launched in Dublin tomorrow with the […]
February 5, 2018‘Islamophobia’ Hoaxes and the Rush to Judgment – QuilletteTwo weeks ago, Canadians responded in horror to a disturbing news story in Toronto: before a bank of […]
January 19, 2018A New American Leader Rises in ISIS – The AtlanticA two-year investigation identifies one of the very few Americans in the Islamic State’s upper ranks—and sheds light […]
January 9, 2018Lawmaker seeks to up Alaska’s legal age of marriage to 18 – The Seattle TimesKETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker is seeking to change the state law that allows a person […]
January 9, 2018India Rules Sex With a Child Bride Is Always Rape in a Massive Win for Girls’ Rights – Global CitizenIndia’s top court has ruled that sex with a child is always rape, quashing a clause that allowed […]
January 7, 2018In south India, a 20-year-old survivor of honor killing turns crusader – ReutersCHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kausalya and her husband of eight months were shown no mercy when […]
January 6, 2018‘The cases reported are just the tip of the iceberg’: the Syrian refugee girls facing child marriage in Turkey – iNewsDalal Abdullah is just 13, but her mother has already had to fend off a string of requests […]
January 6, 2018Irish project helping to end child marriage in Nepal – thejournal.ieIN NEPAL 10% of girls are married before the age of 15 and 37% are married before the […]
January 6, 2018Turkish child marriage religious document sparks anger – BBC NewsTurkey’s main opposition party has called for a parliamentary inquiry after the directorate of religious affairs said that, […]
January 4, 2018Rape, Underage Sex, Forced Marriage, Abuse. That’s the Plight of Too Many Afghan Girls – NewsweekSahar was only 10 years old when she was forced to marry an older man. Her father agreed […]
December 29, 2017FGM in Sri Lanka: It’s never ‘just a nick’ – Al JazeeraFor decades, female genital mutilation (FGM) has been practiced in Sri Lanka. However, to those outside the practicing […]
December 26, 2017Couple accused of genital mutilation of their daughter at Dublin home to face trial – IndependentA couple are to face trial accused of genital mutilation of their daughter at their home in Dublin. […]
December 26, 2017This young Croydon man’s amazing work to stop violence against girls and women has earned him an award from the Queen – Croydon AdvertiserA young man who came to Croydon after fleeing Zimbabwe as a teenager is about to be given an […]
December 26, 2017They escaped child marriage. Now they’re speaking out. – CNNEunice was just 9 years old when she was married off to a man older than her father. […]
December 25, 2017Lawyer of Saudi sisters in Turkey fighting to prevent extradition – Hurriyet Daily NewsThe lawyer of two Saudi Arabian sisters in Turkey has been fighting to prevent the women from being […]