January 17, 2022‘Why Is Child Marriage Still Legal?’: A Young Lawmaker Tackles a Hidden Problem – PoliticoCONCORD, N.H. — One day in the middle of September, Cassie Levesque walked up a carpeted hallway toward a […]
January 17, 2022UN steps up to fight against FGM, gender-based violence in Somalia – IPPMEDIAThe United Nations has partnered with a leading non-governmental organisation to step up the fight against female genital […]
January 14, 2022Child Marriage Outlawed in the Philippines – The ThaigerThe Philippines has criminalized child marriage. Offenders who are caught living with or marrying someone less than 18 […]
December 29, 2021Oxford Against Cutting speaks out against harmful practices – Oxford MailTHE PANDEMIC has resulted in many more women becoming vulnerable to domestic abuse and other harmful practices. Oxford Against […]
December 29, 2021Lesbian risks life and flees Afghanistan to escape forced marriage to cruel Taliban brute – Pink NewsRabia was just 15-years-old when she became engaged to a Taliban officer against her will in a small […]
December 29, 2021Pakistani Men Force Minority Girls Into Marriage & Push Them Into Prostitution: Report – RepublicWorldIn a major embarrassment for the Imran Khan-led government, a UK parliamentary panel report has exposed the condition of Pakistani women from […]
November 26, 2021Domestic abuse: GPs trained to spot signs of violence – BBC News“Women were coming back for emergency contraception or having lots of terminations. I hadn’t appreciated they weren’t in […]
November 26, 2021International Day For Elimination Of Violence Against Women 2021: All You Need To Know – Sambad EnglishWomen’s rights activists have observed 25 November as a day against gender-based violence since 1981. This date was […]
November 26, 2021How COVID-19 borders drove Perth family to seek female genital mutilation on home soil – WA TodayOn a seemingly typical weekday in the summer school holidays, a new mother took her two-week-old girl to […]
November 25, 2021The woman risking it all to help child brides annul their marriages – CNNJodhpur, India (CNN) — The Child Marriage Restraint Act (CMRA) of 1929 set out to “eradicate the evil of […]
November 25, 2021MPs back raising minimum marriage age to 18 to protect children – BBC NewsMPs have backed raising the legal age of marriage to 18 to stop vulnerable children being forced to […]
November 25, 2021In Pakistan, minority girls and women are being forced into marriages and religious conversions – AleteiaGirls and women from religious minorities continue to be victims of forced conversion and marriage in Pakistan, with […]
November 25, 2021Afghan Families ‘Marry Off’ Baby Girls For Dowries Amid Extreme Hunger – Global CitizenJobless and engulfed in debt, Afghan brick kiln worker Fazal said the country’s imploding economy had left him […]
November 25, 2021Hackney school praised for tackling topics of abuse and FGM – Hackney GazetteA Hackney school has won praise from a campaigner for its efforts to stamp out Female Genital Mutilation […]
November 25, 2021Reversing underage marriage trend in the North – PunchNIGERIA’S disgraceful scorecard on the plight of the girl-child was re-enacted with a new report from Save the […]
November 18, 2021I’ve Fought FGM for 20 Years. It Terrifies Me How Many Girls Have Been Cut During COVID-19 – Dr Leyla Hussein in Global CitizenI often say I would never recommend activism as a career path for anyone. It is truly gruelling, […]
November 16, 2021Police Say Victims In Norway Attack Were Stabbed, Not Killed By Bow And Arrow – ForbesThe five people killed in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg last Wednesday died from stab wounds and not […]
October 30, 2021Early Marriage, Teen Pregnancy As Threats to Girl-Child Education – LeadershipA UNESCO report released on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child (11 October) shows […]
October 29, 2021Progressives are a gift to Islamism – UnHerdIn the almost 30 years that I have lived in the West, discussion surrounding Islamism has been stymied […]