January 6, 2017Syrian girls flee war only to become mothers in Jordan campIn a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her […]
January 6, 2017Government defends foreign aid over report ‘Ethiopia’s Spice Girls’ receiving £5.2m to develop media platformOverseas aid provides good value for money, the Government has insisted, after it was reported that an Ethiopian […]
January 6, 2017Iran: 43 Thousand Cases of Child MarriageOn Sunday December 11th, 2016, the state-run newspaper, Shargh admitted to the disaster of child marriage in the […]
January 6, 201713-year-old girl forced to marry her ‘rapist’ step-brotherA man in his 20s has married his 13-year-old step-sister after making her pregnant. The marriage took place […]
January 6, 2017Female Genital Mutilation is a Problem in the USInterim Executive Director, Amanda Parker, was featured in an article written by VICE, Emmy Award Winning Documentary series […]
December 22, 20162016 Annual ReportFrom Ayaan’s vision of a future where women and girls are free to live lives of their own […]
December 14, 2016Moving accounts from a forced marriage survivor Rubie Marie and fierce FGM critic and survivor Khadija Gbla; Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks with former CNN Chief Whitehouse Correspondent, and more…Dear AHA Foundation Supporter, “There is a cost when you put your face to something,” shared Khadija Gbla, a […]
December 13, 2016Khadija Gbla, Survivor of Female Genital Mutilation, Turned Her Anger with Injustice Into Action to Protect Girls at Risk of FGMSince she was only 13 years old, FGM survivor Khadija Gbla has been an outspoken advocate working to […]
December 11, 2016At InHer Circle Discussion, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Shares the Choice That Fuels the Mission of Her Life’s WorkRecently, AHA Foundation founder, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, sat down for a discussion with former CNN Chief White House […]
December 11, 2016Rubie Marie, Ms. Galaxy International Queen and Survivor of Forced Marriage from the UK, Advocates to EmpowerPublished 12/11/2016 Born in the UK, Rubie Marie is a brave survivor of a forced marriage at the […]
December 6, 2016Impoverished families flout Guatemala’s child marriage banA year after Guatemala passed a law banning child marriage, poor families who regard girls as a financial […]
December 6, 2016Kyrgyzstan Ups Fight Against Child Marriage“[E]veryone knows mullahs marry [people] at an early age,” the head of a community elders court told me […]
December 6, 2016Early marriage and education, the chicken or the egg?Ramallah, November 19, 2016—“I wish I could do it now,” said 24-year-old West Bank resident Basma, of the […]
December 6, 2016‘Sold like cows and goats’: India’s slave bridesThe first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in […]
December 6, 2016Turkey withdraws bill after protests over child-sexual assault clauseTurkey’s government has withdrawn a controversial bill that would have granted amnesty to some men convicted of child […]
December 6, 2016Desmond Tutu: Child marriage harms our human familyMillions of girls are married as children. This fact harms our human family and reminds us how deeply […]
December 6, 2016Child Marriage Restraint Act 2016 gets final nod – BangladeshThe new legislation includes a provision allowing child marriage in ‘special cases’, such as if a girl becomes pregnant accidentally […]
December 6, 2016It’s time to break the silence on child marriage in IndonesiaChild marriage is a national crisis in Indonesia that continues to receive little attention both domestically and globally, […]
December 6, 2016Cameroon Launches African Union Campaign To End Child MarriageToday, Cameroon became the 16th country to launch the African Union campaign to end child marriage in Africa, […]
December 5, 2016Honour killing: couple beaten, strangled to deathA teenage girl and her male cousin were killed over the pretext of karo-kari at village Rasool Bakhsh […]