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February 17, 2021
02-18-2021 Shaparak Shajarizadeh stood up for the rights that every woman deserves. But doing so in her native […]
February 17, 2021
Dawn Tyree was a child back in 1985 when she married the man who impregnated her. A couple […]
February 17, 2021
Two million additional cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) may occur over the next decade as COVID-19 “shutters […]
February 11, 2021
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – While most teenage girls dream of their chance to walk down the aisle, some […]
February 5, 2021
State legislators in North Carolina are seeking to raise the state’s minimum age for marriage from 14 to […]
February 4, 2021
RALEIGH, N.C. (WLOS) — State lawmakers want to bring an end to child marriage in North Carolina by […]
January 14, 2021
For the first time ever, charges have been brought against someone for allegedly transporting a child outside of […]
January 12, 2021
Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of girls in Canada have been married before turning 18, researchers […]
January 7, 2021
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States has toughened its ban on the “abhorrent practice” of female genital […]
January 5, 2021
In early December, Christine Ghati Alfons taught a menstrual hygiene class to a group of girls, 10 to […]
January 5, 2021
KOIDU, Sierra Leone (AP) — The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with […]
January 5, 2021
CHENNAI: Against the backdrop of high incidence of child marriages across South Asian countries, the Feminist Inquiries into […]
December 18, 2020
Congress delivered a long-overdue holiday gift to thousands of young women and girls in the United States. The […]
December 17, 2020
A rare worthwhile bipartisan bill has passed Congress that will outlaw female genital mutilation as a matter of federal law. […]
December 14, 2020
A rights group found evidence of 2,000 women, including some 200 minors, in Germany last year who underwent […]