March 28, 2018Penn State Students Fight to End FGM From Their ClassroomsA group of talented and determined students from Penn State’s Dickinson Law have taken up the challenge of […]
March 27, 2018A Survivor Shares: When Female Genital Cutting Occurs, Childhood Ends and Trauma Begins** Please note the photo above is a stock photo and not a photo of the survivor. It […]
March 24, 2018Child marriage ban, year-round Daylight Saving time signed into law – Florida Politics(Florida Politics) – A bill that would ban marriages for anyone under the age of 17 and legislation […]
March 22, 2018Child marriage isn’t marriage and ‘nearly 18’ isn’t 18 years old – The Hill(The Hill) – Why have you abandoned the 17-year-old girls? I ask this to the many state legislators across […]
March 17, 2018National campaign to end child marriages arrives in Louisiana; backers say state law must change – The Acadiana Advocate(The Acadiana Advocate) – Amanda Parker, senior director of the AHA Foundation, which is also dedicated to ending […]
March 9, 2018Florida Moves to Ban Marriage Before the Age of 17 – PBS(FRONTLINE) – Florida has moved to tighten its laws on child marriage. On Friday, state lawmakers passed a […]
February 20, 2018By Educating Legislators Across the Nation, Alex Still Helps Protect Girls in the U.S. from FGMAHA Foundation: Alexandra Still is our Program and Policy Associate. Alex researches cultural practices that harm women and girls in […]
February 8, 201868 Million Girls May Face Female Genital Mutilation by 2030, U.N. Chief Warns – TIME(UNITED NATIONS) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that without accelerated action 68 million girls could be […]
February 7, 2018Florida: Child Marriage Bill – Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release Florida: Child Marriage Ban Hits a Bump Legislators Should Support Bill Setting Minimum Age at […]
February 6, 2018International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM Media ReleaseMEDIA RELEASE TIME’S UP ON POLITICAL STALEMATE AROUND FGM IN MAINE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FEMALE […]
February 6, 2018Global event calling for end to FGM to start here – IndependentA worldwide social media campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM) is being launched in Dublin tomorrow with the […]
February 5, 2018‘Islamophobia’ Hoaxes and the Rush to Judgment – QuilletteTwo weeks ago, Canadians responded in horror to a disturbing news story in Toronto: before a bank of […]
January 31, 2018The “No Platform” Brigade – The Hoover InstitutionA public event with the eminent scientist and rationalist Richard Dawkins was cancelled late last year by a […]
January 25, 2018AHA Foundation Intern Shares Her Experience of Working to Make the U.S. a Safer Place to Be a GirlAfter two years of working with the AHA Foundation, our intern Bree Dyer is leaving for another work […]
January 25, 2018Survivor of a Forced Marriage, Fraidy Reiss, Works to End Child Marriage in America’s NeighborhoodsFraidy Reiss is the Founder and Executive Director of Unchained At Last, the AHA Foundation’s sister organization that […]
January 22, 2018Pennsylvania HB 413 Media ReleaseMEDIA RELEASE PUSH TO OUTLAW FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN PENNSYLVANIA For immediate release: Monday 22 January 2018 Pennsylvania […]
January 21, 2018The Cut: Female Genital Mutilation in the Modern WorldBy: Madari Pendas For many, the subject of female genital mutilation is an uncomfortable and difficult topic to […]
January 19, 2018A New American Leader Rises in ISIS – The AtlanticA two-year investigation identifies one of the very few Americans in the Islamic State’s upper ranks—and sheds light […]
January 15, 2018New Hampshire HB 1739 Media ReleaseMEDIA ALERT: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION & CHILD MARRIAGE EXPERT SPEAKING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE THIS WEEK AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW […]
January 9, 2018Lawmaker seeks to up Alaska’s legal age of marriage to 18 – The Seattle TimesKETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker is seeking to change the state law that allows a person […]