AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage
August 24, 2017
UNICEF says more than one in 10 girls in the Dominican Republic are married or living with a […]
August 21, 2017
State Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, has a history of protecting children through state legislation, passing bills requiring […]
August 21, 2017
El Salvador and Guatemala have joined a trend in clamping down on child marriage by passing legislation that […]
August 17, 2017
Seasonal employment, child marriage and school drop out rate are among the reasons making women and girls vulnerable […]
August 17, 2017
The term ‘child marriage’ is used to describe a legal or customary union between two people, of whom […]
August 16, 2017
I was quite alarmed by new research on the economic impacts of child marriage released a few weeks ago in […]
August 16, 2017
As I have every August in recent years, I am busy preparing my children to return to school. […]
August 15, 2017
As expected, legislation was filed Monday in the Florida Senate to ban minors from getting married. The bill […]
August 10, 2017
Progress towards ending child marriage in Nepal appears to have ground to a halt, despite early hopes. Nepal, […]
August 10, 2017
Back in May 2001, a bill was introduced into the Alabama Senate that sought to raise the age […]
August 8, 2017
Iranian lawmaker Fatemeh Zolqadr said the Iranian Parliament, in coordination with the country’s Vice-Presidency for Women and Family […]
August 8, 2017
Bangladesh has the fourth-highest rate of child marriage in the world. Though the numbers have reportedly declined in the last […]
August 8, 2017
A child bride taken to Bangladesh and forced into marriage at 15 says August is the ‘hot month’ […]
August 7, 2017
The NSPCC report of increasing calls in relation to forced marriage (Report, 31 July) is alarming. In 2016 more […]
July 31, 2017
A girl aged just five has reportedly been forced into marriage with a 22-year-old man in Pakistan. Police were […]