October 26, 2017‘How to Get Away With Murder’s’ Aja Naomi King to Star in ‘A Girl From Mogadishu’ – Variety“How to Get Away With Murder” star Aja Naomi King is portraying Somali activist Ifrah Ahmed in the biopic “A […]
October 25, 2017Woman who married at 11 seeks to change Florida marriage law – The Washington PostSherry Johnson was 11 years old when she was forced to marry her 20-year-old rapist through a loophole […]
October 25, 2017African leaders join forces in pledge to stamp out child marriage – Reuters African political leaders, activists, and local chiefs joined forces on Monday to commit to ending child marriage in […]
October 25, 2017Why does the US have so many child brides? – BBC NewsAngel was 13 when her mother forced her to marry and start a family. “I felt like a […]
October 25, 2017GPS tether bugs me, says mom in genital mutilation case – The Detroit NewsA West Bloomfield Township woman accused of delivering her daughter to a doctor who mutilated the girl’s genitalia […]
October 25, 2017Worse than Weinstein is the exploitation of Florida girls – The Sun SentinelThis piece was originally published in Florida newspaper, The Sun Sentinel, on Tuesday 24th October, 2017. The flood of […]
October 24, 2017Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islam–Mecca vs Medina?This is Jordan Peterson’s Podcast episode featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali. They discuss Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent paper for […]
October 23, 2017‘I was married at 14, it killed my dreams’: Scandal of the illegal child brides being sold to be wed – MirrorSchoolgirl Alima Ka woke to hear voices singing and her parents by her bed, telling her they had […]
October 23, 2017Activist Speaks On How She Survived ‘Highly Demonic’ Female Genital Mutilation – The Daily CallerA human rights activist relayed the “demonic” experience of female genital mutilation (FGM) she underwent to a small […]
October 20, 2017Facebook evidence and new laws set free child brides in India – ReutersCampaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India, which has […]
October 20, 2017Afghanistan has a tougher law on child marriage than Florida – Human Rights WatchIt’s been a funny week. I’m in Kabul, Afghanistan, launching a new Human Rights Watch report I wrote […]
October 20, 2017Sex charge should stick in mutilation case, feds say – The Detroit NewsDr. Jumana Nagarwala digitally penetrated and cut the genitalia of 7-year-old girls and should face a sex charge […]
October 19, 2017The grandmother who used to perform FGM & is now fighting against it – London EconomicMartha Daub, a 59-year-old grandmother from Northern Tanzania, is campaigning to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a harmful […]
October 17, 2017FBI Launches New Fight to Uncover Secretive Female Genital Mutilation in US – CBN NewsMost Americans are unaware of a very old, barbaric tradition which continues to be practiced to this day […]
October 16, 2017Why FGM is not just a women’s issue – IOL NewsResearch done by Sonke Gender Justice, a Johannesburg-based NGO, in addition to international research, has confirmed that working […]
October 16, 2017FGM in Latin America: Colombia’s Embera tribe – Al JazeeraColombia’s Embera indigenous tribe is one of the few communities in Latin America known to practise female genital mutilation (FGM), […]
October 16, 2017Too young to marry: Connecticut finally ends child marriage – CT PostAt least 20,000 girls under the age of 18 married with judicial consent in 2017 in the U.S. […]
October 13, 20179 Unsettling Facts About Child Marriage – U.S. NewsAbout 1.1 billion girls live in the world today, but not all live equally. The United Nations observes Oct. 11 […]
October 13, 2017India’s Supreme Court Rules Sex With Child Brides Is Rape – TimeIndia’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that sex with an underage wife constitutes rape, in a landmark ruling that campaigners […]
October 11, 2017Empowering Girls Rescued From Child Marriage – The New York TimesHaving spent 15 years photographing child marriages around the world, Stephanie Sinclair is uniquely positioned to understand its lasting impact […]