January 27, 2017Former Pakistani child bride shares story with studentsPakistani-American Naila Amin, 27, of Baldwin, stood in front of Mepham High School’s Leadership and Voices of the […]
January 25, 2017Most popular blogs of 2016, an interview with survivor of a kidnapping and honor violence Qadar Issa, Ayaan speaks at the MPSF Speaker Series in California, and more…Dear AHA Foundation Supporter, Happy New Year from all of us here at the AHA Foundation! As we transition […]
January 19, 2017CPS ‘afraid to tackle honour crimes for fear of causing unrest in Asian communities’The Crown Prosecution Service is failing to prosecute honour crimes for fear of causing “unrest” in Asian communities, […]
January 19, 2017Metropolitan Police accuses honour crimes whistleblower of gross misconductA Scotland Yard whistleblower who claimed the Crown Prosecution Service is failing Asian female victims of honour crimes has […]
January 19, 2017Call the Midwife confronts female genital mutilation in new seriesCall The Midwife is to tackle the controversial issue of female genital mutilation, with a storyline set among the […]
January 13, 2017Women’s Rights Are a National Security IssueThe Trump transition team asked the State Department last week to submit details of programs and jobs that […]
January 6, 2017Afghan returnee girls at risk of early marriage: reportChildren of Afghan families returning from Pakistan, who do not go to school and have no access to […]
January 6, 2017Drought forcing schoolgirls into marriageDROUGHT is forcing Mozambican girls out of school and into forced marriages. School drop-outs in vulnerable provinces have […]
January 6, 2017Syrian girls flee war only to become mothers in Jordan campIn a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her […]
January 6, 2017Government defends foreign aid over report ‘Ethiopia’s Spice Girls’ receiving £5.2m to develop media platformOverseas aid provides good value for money, the Government has insisted, after it was reported that an Ethiopian […]
January 6, 2017Iran: 43 Thousand Cases of Child MarriageOn Sunday December 11th, 2016, the state-run newspaper, Shargh admitted to the disaster of child marriage in the […]
January 6, 201713-year-old girl forced to marry her ‘rapist’ step-brotherA man in his 20s has married his 13-year-old step-sister after making her pregnant. The marriage took place […]
January 6, 2017Female Genital Mutilation is a Problem in the USInterim Executive Director, Amanda Parker, was featured in an article written by VICE, Emmy Award Winning Documentary series […]
December 6, 2016Impoverished families flout Guatemala’s child marriage banA year after Guatemala passed a law banning child marriage, poor families who regard girls as a financial […]
December 6, 2016Kyrgyzstan Ups Fight Against Child Marriage“[E]veryone knows mullahs marry [people] at an early age,” the head of a community elders court told me […]
December 6, 2016Early marriage and education, the chicken or the egg?Ramallah, November 19, 2016—“I wish I could do it now,” said 24-year-old West Bank resident Basma, of the […]
December 6, 2016‘Sold like cows and goats’: India’s slave bridesThe first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in […]
December 6, 2016Turkey withdraws bill after protests over child-sexual assault clauseTurkey’s government has withdrawn a controversial bill that would have granted amnesty to some men convicted of child […]
December 6, 2016Desmond Tutu: Child marriage harms our human familyMillions of girls are married as children. This fact harms our human family and reminds us how deeply […]
December 6, 2016Child Marriage Restraint Act 2016 gets final nod – BangladeshThe new legislation includes a provision allowing child marriage in ‘special cases’, such as if a girl becomes pregnant accidentally […]