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January 28, 2016
Sundance Film Festival is screening the film “Sonita,” a documentary by Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami. The film […]
January 27, 2016
In the Pakistani district of Thar, child brides are very common. Girls are often married at 9 and […]
January 25, 2016
The Diane Rehm show featured a story of honor violence: a Afghan woman decided she wanted to choose […]
January 14, 2016
According to a recently released government study, more than a half a million girls are at risk of […]
January 12, 2016
A group of women in India who were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in their youth are […]
December 31, 2015
2015 has proven to be a transformative year in terms of efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) […]
December 15, 2015
Canadian High Commissioner Christopher Thornley has stated that ending child marriage is a Canadian foreign policy issue. Canada […]
December 12, 2015
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that without any progress in prevention mechanisms, child marriages will reach […]
December 11, 2015
A drought in Ethiopia is having a terrible effect on the rate of forced marriages in the country, in […]
December 10, 2015
Activists in Zimbabwe are pushing for legislation that would decrease the rates of men using marriage as a […]
December 9, 2015
The charity organization, KAFA, created a movie to highlight the prevalence and acceptance of child marriage in Lebanon. […]
December 8, 2015
Nuriye Kadan stated that 1/3 of Turkey’s marriages involve underage brides at a recent conference. Kadan is an […]
December 8, 2015
A new report from Foreign Policy Magazine tackles the silent issue of Palestine’s illegal abortion epidemic. With little choice […]
December 5, 2015
. 2019 HIGHLIGHTS Upheld our position as the national leader in anti-FGM advocacy and played key roles in […]
December 4, 2015
At the First African Girls’ Summit on Ending Child Marriage in Africa, African leaders pledged to end child […]