AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage


February 9, 2017

New Research on Child Marriage in 2016: What Did We Learn?

2016 was a big year for research on child marriage. New data and analysis emerged, building our understanding […]
February 9, 2017

Refugee Brides: What should Germany do about its child marriage problem?

Germany is on the frontline of controversial debate that has put European governments in a quandary – whether […]
February 9, 2017

Marrying Your Rapist in Malaysia

Survivors of rape often say they are left with devastating, sometimes lifelong, trauma. One woman who was sexually […]
February 9, 2017

Drought Threatens to Undo Mozambique’s Gender Equality Progress

Among the many countries in southern Africa suffering through the El Niño-induced drought, Mozambique is one of the […]
February 9, 2017

Denmark bans marriage for under-18s after report suggests dozens of asylum seeking teens arriving with spouses

The Danish government has approved a bill that will prohibit people under the age of 18 from getting […]
February 9, 2017

Trinidad & Tobago Moves to End Child Marriage, Despite Religious Opposition

With the proclamation of The Children Act on May 18, 2015, Trinidad and Tobago raised the age of sexual […]
February 2, 2017

The Conversation on BBC – Forced Marriage

Two women who’ve escaped forced marriage and now fight for the rights of other victims talk to Maryam […]
January 27, 2017

Former Pakistani child bride shares story with students

Pakistani-American Naila Amin, 27, of Baldwin, stood in front of Mepham High School’s Leadership and Voices of the […]
January 6, 2017

Afghan returnee girls at risk of early marriage: report

Children of Afghan families returning from Pakistan, who do not go to school and have no access to […]
January 6, 2017

Drought forcing schoolgirls into marriage

DROUGHT is forcing Mozambican girls out of school and into forced marriages. School drop-outs in vulnerable provinces have […]
January 6, 2017

Syrian girls flee war only to become mothers in Jordan camp

In a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her […]
January 6, 2017

Iran: 43 Thousand Cases of Child Marriage

On Sunday December 11th, 2016, the state-run newspaper, Shargh admitted to the disaster of child marriage in the […]
January 6, 2017

13-year-old girl forced to marry her ‘rapist’ step-brother

A man in his 20s has married his 13-year-old step-sister after making her pregnant. The marriage took place […]
December 6, 2016

Impoverished families flout Guatemala’s child marriage ban

A year after Guatemala passed a law banning child marriage, poor families who regard girls as a financial […]
December 6, 2016

Kyrgyzstan Ups Fight Against Child Marriage

“[E]veryone knows mullahs marry [people] at an early age,” the head of a community elders court told me […]