AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage
March 16, 2017
Jasvinder Sanghera was locked in a room by her parents when she was 16, when she refused to […]
March 16, 2017
The Bangladesh Government should move quickly to adopt regulations to limit the harms of a new law that […]
March 16, 2017
We, the members of the scientific and technical advisory group and the gender and rights advisory panel of […]
March 16, 2017
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is advancing new legislation to end child marriage by raising […]
February 20, 2017
On 19 December 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a second resolution on child, early and […]
February 20, 2017
The government has decided to seek unlikely allies in its struggle to end child marriage: religious leaders, the […]
February 20, 2017
“I’ve never experienced happiness in my marriage. I’ve never seen the benefit of being married,” Chimwemwe told me […]
February 20, 2017
At only 16 years old, Suha had not thought about marriage until her father told her she would […]
February 20, 2017
“But child marriage is legal in the UK—so why shouldn’t it be allowed here?” Those were the words […]
February 20, 2017
Michelle DeMello walked into the clerk’s office in Colorado thinking for sure someone would save her. She was […]
February 20, 2017
Unchained at Last’s has displayed incredible leadership on criminalizing child marriage in the US. Child advocates in New York […]
February 20, 2017
Pakistan has interdicted child marriage and hardened penalties for those guilty of the crime in an effort to […]
February 20, 2017
After conquering Bama, the second-largest town in Nigeria’s Borno state, a small group of fighters from the militant […]
February 9, 2017
Around the world, children are taken from their families and married off against their will, often at the […]
February 9, 2017
Costa Rica has raised the minimum age for marriage to 18 under a law that experts hope will […]