March 20, 2017Sold into marriage – how Rohingya girls become child brides in MalaysiaThe slight girl in a turquoise headscarf held back tears as she recalled what happened when she fled […]
March 20, 2017Campaign To End Child Marriage In S. Sudan Launched In JubaSave the Children’s Country Director Mr. Peter Walsh who delivered his speech at the opening ceremony of the […]
March 20, 2017Malawai Changes Law To End Child MarriageMalawi has made a historic amendment to its constitution to fully outlaw child marriage following a year-long campaign […]
March 16, 2017Jasvinder Sanghera: I ran away to escape a forced marriageJasvinder Sanghera was locked in a room by her parents when she was 16, when she refused to […]
March 16, 2017Boris Johnson: The world would be a better place if all girls went to schoolI am always dubious about so-called silver bullets that allegedly solve a host of problems. “Life can’t be […]
March 16, 2017Inside Britain’s sharia councils: hardline and anti-women – or a dignified way to divorce?On a freezing, rainswept Sunday in a conference room in Birmingham Central mosque, a young woman in a […]
March 16, 2017Bangladesh: Legalizing Child Marriage Threatens Girls’ SafetyThe Bangladesh Government should move quickly to adopt regulations to limit the harms of a new law that […]
March 16, 2017Women are suffering globally – we must act nowWe, the members of the scientific and technical advisory group and the gender and rights advisory panel of […]
March 16, 2017Governor Cuomo Announces New Legislation to End Child MarriageGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is advancing new legislation to end child marriage by raising […]
March 13, 20173 Photographs That Tell The Whole Truth About Female Genital Mutilation (NSFW)Elisabeth Ubbe was a young nursing student at a Swedish hospital back in the ‘90s when a doctor […]
February 27, 2017Virginia joins global movement to criminalize female circumcisionVirginia’s General Assembly unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on female genital mutilation, criminalizing the procedure with […]
February 20, 2017How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia? – An Oped by Ayaan Hirsi AliOriginally published in The Australian: 12:00AM February 18, 2017 Yassmin Abdel-Magied, an Islamic activist, has been paid by […]
February 20, 2017UN General Assembly Adopts 2nd Resolution on Child, Early, and Forced MarriageOn 19 December 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a second resolution on child, early and […]
February 20, 2017Government to enlist clerics in fight against child marriage in IndonesiaThe government has decided to seek unlikely allies in its struggle to end child marriage: religious leaders, the […]
February 20, 2017Scourge of Child Marriage in Africa Continues“I’ve never experienced happiness in my marriage. I’ve never seen the benefit of being married,” Chimwemwe told me […]
February 20, 2017Child marriages on the rise amid Yemeni conflictAt only 16 years old, Suha had not thought about marriage until her father told her she would […]
February 20, 2017If You Don’t Want Child Brides In Bangladesh, Don’t Accept Them In Britain Either“But child marriage is legal in the UK—so why shouldn’t it be allowed here?” Those were the words […]
February 20, 2017Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?Michelle DeMello walked into the clerk’s office in Colorado thinking for sure someone would save her. She was […]
February 20, 2017Mob Kills Eloped Lovers After Storming Afghan Police StationAn armed mob that included relatives of a young woman who had eloped with her lover stormed a […]
February 20, 2017Senate approves criminal penalties for female genital mutilationThe Virginia Senate unanimously passed a bill that would criminalize the act of female genital mutilation by categorizing […]