AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage
October 25, 2017
Sherry Johnson was 11 years old when she was forced to marry her 20-year-old rapist through a loophole […]
October 25, 2017
African political leaders, activists, and local chiefs joined forces on Monday to commit to ending child marriage in […]
October 25, 2017
Angel was 13 when her mother forced her to marry and start a family. “I felt like a […]
October 25, 2017
This piece was originally published in Florida newspaper, The Sun Sentinel, on Tuesday 24th October, 2017. The flood of […]
October 23, 2017
Schoolgirl Alima Ka woke to hear voices singing and her parents by her bed, telling her they had […]
October 20, 2017
Campaigners are using social media and lobbying for special laws to annul child marriages in India, which has […]
October 20, 2017
It’s been a funny week. I’m in Kabul, Afghanistan, launching a new Human Rights Watch report I wrote […]
October 16, 2017
At least 20,000 girls under the age of 18 married with judicial consent in 2017 in the U.S. […]
October 13, 2017
About 1.1 billion girls live in the world today, but not all live equally. The United Nations observes Oct. 11 […]
October 13, 2017
India’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that sex with an underage wife constitutes rape, in a landmark ruling that campaigners […]
October 11, 2017
Having spent 15 years photographing child marriages around the world, Stephanie Sinclair is uniquely positioned to understand its lasting impact […]
October 7, 2017
As the world marks International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, Girls Not Brides is calling […]
October 5, 2017
Guatemala has taken a huge step forward for girls, officially outlawing child marriage following years of advocacy by […]
October 3, 2017
No one really knows for sure how many underage girls are getting married in the country of Georgia. […]
September 29, 2017
Texas has one of the highest child marriage rates in the country, but a new law seeks to […]