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January 17, 2022
What if girls and women who are at risk of or have survived female genital mutilation (FGM) could receive the […]
January 17, 2022
CONCORD, N.H. — One day in the middle of September, Cassie Levesque walked up a carpeted hallway toward a […]
January 17, 2022
The United Nations has partnered with a leading non-governmental organisation to step up the fight against female genital […]
January 14, 2022
The Philippines has criminalized child marriage. Offenders who are caught living with or marrying someone less than 18 […]
December 29, 2021
THE PANDEMIC has resulted in many more women becoming vulnerable to domestic abuse and other harmful practices. Oxford Against […]
December 29, 2021
Rabia was just 15-years-old when she became engaged to a Taliban officer against her will in a small […]
December 29, 2021
In a major embarrassment for the Imran Khan-led government, a UK parliamentary panel report has exposed the condition of Pakistani women from […]
November 26, 2021
“Women were coming back for emergency contraception or having lots of terminations. I hadn’t appreciated they weren’t in […]
November 26, 2021
Women’s rights activists have observed 25 November as a day against gender-based violence since 1981. This date was […]
November 26, 2021
On a seemingly typical weekday in the summer school holidays, a new mother took her two-week-old girl to […]
November 25, 2021
Jodhpur, India (CNN) — The Child Marriage Restraint Act (CMRA) of 1929 set out to “eradicate the evil of […]
November 25, 2021
MPs have backed raising the legal age of marriage to 18 to stop vulnerable children being forced to […]
November 25, 2021
Girls and women from religious minorities continue to be victims of forced conversion and marriage in Pakistan, with […]
November 25, 2021
Jobless and engulfed in debt, Afghan brick kiln worker Fazal said the country’s imploding economy had left him […]