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 […]
December 6, 2016It’s time to break the silence on child marriage in IndonesiaChild marriage is a national crisis in Indonesia that continues to receive little attention both domestically and globally, […]
December 6, 2016Cameroon Launches African Union Campaign To End Child MarriageToday, Cameroon became the 16th country to launch the African Union campaign to end child marriage in Africa, […]
December 5, 2016Honour killing: couple beaten, strangled to deathA teenage girl and her male cousin were killed over the pretext of karo-kari at village Rasool Bakhsh […]
November 21, 2016Turkish bill clears men of statutory rape if they marryA bill which would allow men accused of raping underage girls to be cleared if they marry the […]
November 4, 2016Problem of Child Marriage in Malawi Linked to PovertyAccording to Girls Not Brides, Malawi has the highest rate of child marriages worldwide, with roughly one in […]
November 4, 2016Parliamentarians key in ending child marriagesZimbabwe joined the AU Campaign to end child marriages in mid-2015. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and […]
November 4, 2016Hidden Connections: Climate Change & Child Marriage in BangledeshIt was after floods washed away her family’s river-front land in Bangladesh’s northern Jamalpur district that Brishti Rafiq’s […]
November 4, 2016Syrian girls are being pushed into child marriage in Lebanese refugee campsRates of child marriage have increased dramatically as a result of mass migration worldwide. Humanitarian crises greatly exacerbate […]
November 4, 2016Photo Essay: Acting and Chatting to End Early Marriage in MalawiWhen Malawi passed a law banning child marriage last year, activists applauded it as a significant first step […]
November 4, 2016Unchained at Last founded by ex-Orthodox Jewish bride aids women and girls escape forced marriagesIn 2011, Fraidy Reiss founded Unchained at Last, a New Jersey nonprofit that has helped 250 girls and women […]
November 3, 2016Vietnam hosts a national workshop to end child marriageChild marriage is prevalent across Vietnam, with almost all localities recording child marriage cases, which have serious consequences […]
November 3, 2016Five year child marriage eradication project launched in GhanaA five-year project aimed at eradicating child marriage in some parts of the country has been launched in […]
November 3, 2016Why the world depends on our attitude towards ten-year-old girlsA new report by the United Nation Population Fund finds that our collective future rests on how we support the world’s 60 […]
October 28, 2016This Pakistani mother was married off as a child — but she didn’t let it stop herOne in five girls in Pakistan gets married by the age of 18. Many are poor. And many get […]
October 24, 2016New rules to help end child marriage in Cameroon“I was forced into marriage by my father at the age of 14,” Faouzia Yaya, now 17, told […]
October 24, 2016Malawian chief annuls 300 child marriages, sends kids to schoolA Malawian traditional leader has taken it upon herself to discourage the prevalence of child marriages within her […]
October 24, 2016International Day of the Girl Child: Emma Watson issues impassioned plea on child marriageEmma Watson today issued an impassioned plea to end child marriage to mark the International Day of the Girl Child. The […]
October 24, 2016Pakistan passes anti-honour killings and anti-rape billsA joint session of the Parliament unanimously approved anti-honour killing and anti-rape bills moved by PPP Senator Farhatullah […]
October 24, 20168 insights to end child marriageLast year, we saw a major milestone reached in the campaign to end child marriage. The first global […]