AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage
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 […]
September 25, 2017
After a shocking investigation by the Dayton Daily News earlier this month which revealed that more than 4,400 girls younger than 17 […]
September 22, 2017
It’s likely that some Americans assume child marriage happens only in developing nations, where one in three girls are married […]
September 22, 2017
Child marriage is happening in the United States. Some may assume that in the U.S., the minimum age to […]