July 29, 2022

Child marriage banned in Massachusetts! ‘Gov. Baker agrees to major spending increase in his final budget’ – WBUR

Signing his eighth and final budget as the state’s chief executive, Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday agreed to […]
May 19, 2022

Child Marriage Bill Passes the Massachusetts House of Representatives – The East Boston Times-Free Press

As part of the Fiscal Year 2023 House Budget debate, An Act to End Child Marriage was adopted. […]
November 15, 2021

Representative Kay Khan: “…the more I learned [about child marriage in Massachusetts], the more I realized we needed to act.”

11/15/2021 This month, the fight to end child marriage in Massachusetts reaches a crucial moment. Two bills have […]
May 14, 2021

After last year’s FGM Bill, Advocates Are Hoping for a Child Marriage Ban in Massachusetts as Well – TTN MA

When a young girl is wed to a minor, often times against her will, she is limited in […]
August 27, 2020

Massachusetts Bans FGM After Seven-Year Push by Survivors and Advocates

August 26, 2020 It took seven years for the work to come to fruition, but on August 6 […]
January 23, 2018

AHA Foundation’s Most Popular Blog Posts of 2017

With the new year, we invite you to look back with us and catch up on the AHA […]
June 22, 2017

Shocked About Child Marriage in Massachusetts, High School Student Takes Action to Help Stop the Abuse

In Massachusetts between 2010 and 2014 almost 200 children, mostly girls were married, some as young as 15. […]
May 24, 2017

You Can Help End FGM in the United States

Little girls are having their genitals mutilated right here in the United States. Though we’ve known it was […]