May 19, 2021The University of Central Florida: Women as Agents of Change Against the Forced HijabWatch: Event Description: Faisal Saeed Al Mutar interviewed Masih Alinejad on the status of women’s rights in Iran […]
May 12, 2021California State Northridge: Child Marriage in CaliforniaWatch: Event Description: Speakers Fraidy Reiss, Forced Marriage survivor and Founder of Unchained at Last, and Amanda Parker, […]
April 29, 2021North Carolina State University: FGM/C The Hidden Practice That Changes LivesWatch: Event Description: Speakers F.A. Cole, FGM survivor, Mariya Taher, FGM survivor and Sahiyo Founder, Amanda Parker, AHA […]
April 6, 2021Context Beyond the Headlines Interviews AHA Senior Director Amanda Parker on International Women’s DayOn International Women’s day, the Canadian news program Context Beyond the Headlines interviewed AHA’s Senior Director Amanda Parker. […]
March 15, 2021University of Connecticut: Free Speech and Minority Rights: Perspectives of a Danish Blasphemer and an American HomosexualWatch: Event Description: This panel, “Free Speech and Minority Rights: Perspectives of a Danish Blasphemer and an American […]
February 11, 2021Ohio University: How Can We End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)? A survivor’s perspectiveWatch: Event Description: Nimco Ali is a British Somali feminist, social activist, and survivor of female genital mutilation […]
November 6, 2020Former Prosecutor Laura Reckart Reacts to a Recent Capture of Honor Killing Suspect11-18-2020 Former Prosecutor Laura Reckart Reacts to a Recent Capture of Honor Killing Suspect Honor killings, the most […]
November 5, 2020American University: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: How One Woman Turned Her Pain into AdvocacyWatch: Event Description: A survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), child sexual assault, and rape, F.A. Cole […]
October 7, 2020Surviving Child Marriage in the United States: Yes, it happens here too. Legally.Event Description: This event screened a short film called “Speaking Frankly: Child Marriage” by CBS Originals and featured […]
August 27, 2020FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Yaser Abdel Said Now in Custody After Committing Honor Killings in 2008 – FBIYaser Abdel Said, a capital murder suspect wanted in connection with the homicide of his two teenage daughters, […]
June 8, 2020A Daughter Is Beheaded, and Iran Asks if Women Have a Right to Safety – The New York TimesBefore he beheaded his 14-year-old daughter with a farming sickle, Reza Ashrafi called a lawyer. His daughter, Romina, […]
April 17, 2020Police see rise in domestic violence calls amid coronavirus lockdown – NBC NewsReports of domestic violence increased in March in many cities around the country as the coronavirus pandemic spread, […]
April 17, 2020In quarantine with an abuser: surge in domestic violence reports linked to coronavirus – The GuardianOne caller to a domestic violence hotline reported that her husband threatened to throw her out into the […]
February 22, 2020Harvard University: Make America Dinner Again (MADA) Roundtable DiscussionEvent Description: On February 22, 2020, ten students with diverging viewpoints at Harvard University gathered to eat dinner […]
October 10, 2019Kentucky Survivor Breaks Silence About Genital MutilationI am a white, Christian woman who was born and raised in the United States. When I was […]
September 17, 2019Texas Man Convicted Of Killing His Daughter’s Husband And Her Best Friend In ‘Honor Killings’ – OxygenWhen Nesreen Irsan, a 23-year-old Muslim, ran away from home, converted to Christianity and married her American boyfriend, Coty Beavers, no […]
July 22, 2019Convictions for honour crimes including FGM, rape and forced marriage plummet amid national police crackdown – The IndependentConvictions for so-called honour crimes perpetrated against women have plummeted in the past five years, The Independent can reveal, amid a nationwide […]
July 2, 2019‘Every day has been hell’ since ‘honour killing’ of Banaz Mahmod – BBCThe image above is a stock image. The sister of a Muslim woman murdered in a so-called honour […]
March 21, 2019Panel: “Religious Extremism in the Middle East” at the University of RochesterVideo Link: Event Description: On Thursday, March 21 the University of Rochester College Republicans and Ahmadiyya […]