December 23, 2017FGM is a real danger to many young girls – Belfast TelegraphChristmas is usually a happy time for children and families. However, for a small number of girls in […]
December 21, 2017Time we tighten up child marriage laws – St. Augustine RecordMore often than not this time of year, The Record rails against silly or superfluous laws being teed-up by our […]
December 19, 2017Girls could be flown abroad to undergo FGM during Christmas holidays, officials warn as more than 1,000 cases reported – The IndependentGirls may be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) abroad during the Christmas holidays, authorities have warned […]
December 19, 2017Child marriage is a criminal injustice – Daily NationCan there be such a thing as child marriage? Not for the African Union Goodwill Ambassador spearheading the […]
December 19, 2017Crashing a wedding, saving a child bride: App helps girl avoid child marriage – UNFPAWhen a 13-year-old girl in the remote village of Darbhanga, in India’s Bihar State, overheard her parents planning […]
December 11, 2017How Women From The U.S. Could Be At Risk Of Genital Mutilation – NPRYoung women from the U.S. are at increasing risk of a dangerous ritual known as female genital mutilation. […]
December 9, 2017Photography Project ‘Too Young To Wed’ Empowers Child Marriage Survivors – KobbiniAccording to International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), one-third of girls in the developing world are married before the […]
December 9, 2017Educating Girls: A Way of Ending Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy – The World BankAnnet Nyaburu is only 18 years old, but she is a mother of two boys, aged 4 and […]
December 9, 2017Child Marriage is an Affront to Women’s Empowerment – Huffington PostTo Empower Women, Begin with Protecting Girls Today, our 24-hour news cycle is fraught with accounts of sexual […]
December 9, 2017‘We Must Protect Our Girls.’ Will Pakistan Finally Vote to End Child Marriage? – TimeAisha was 14 years old when she married a man almost a decade older in a match arranged […]
December 9, 2017Child marriage has become less common in America. But it still exists – The EconomistSEXUAL mores change faster than the law does. This has been the case with child marriage, which is […]
December 9, 2017How sharia marriages can hurt women in the West – The EconomistSHIRIN MUSA draws on bitter experience to inspire her work to help women caught between legal and cultural […]
December 9, 2017It’s Time To Break The Silence Over This Shockingly Common Practice – Refinery 29According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 200 million women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), […]
December 9, 2017House increases penalty for female genital mutilation – The Detroit Newshe U.S. House on Tuesday unanimously approved a bipartisan bill sponsored by Michigan Rep. Dave Trott that would […]
December 9, 2017How to fight female genital mutilation with economics – CNNSeleiman Bishagazi never enjoyed the benefits of a university education, but he’s smarter on a basic human rights […]
December 4, 2017The Plot Behind Saudi Arabia’s Fight With Qatar – The New York TimesBy Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Originally Published in The New York Times December 4, 2017. In June, Saudi Arabia […]
December 3, 2017In Some Evangelical Circles, Grown Men Pursuing Teens Isn’t All That Unusual – Huffington PostIn the fundamentalist Christian circles that Samantha Field grew up in, the word “courtship” doesn’t evoke romantic images of […]
December 3, 2017Senate passes Rep. Peter Lucido’s bill to protect children from mutilation – Clickon DetroitState senators unanimously approved Rep. Peter Lucido’s legislation allowing the termination of parental rights for anyone who forces their […]
December 3, 20175 Reasons Why Child Marriage Affects Us All – Huffington PostOur ambitious Sustainable Development Goals agenda serves to create progress that will improve lives across the world. But […]
December 3, 2017Husband forces wife to undergo FGM – StandardI was recently talking to a group of girlfriends about Culture and the topic on Female Genital Mutilation […]