March 20, 2017

Nepal’s Child Brides: One girl’s story shines a light on a pervasive problem

In Nepal, 37 percent of girls are married before the age of 18, despite the legal age of marriage […]
March 20, 2017

Sold into marriage – how Rohingya girls become child brides in Malaysia

The slight girl in a turquoise headscarf held back tears as she recalled what happened when she fled […]
March 20, 2017

Campaign To End Child Marriage In S. Sudan Launched In Juba

Save the Children’s Country Director Mr. Peter Walsh who delivered his speech at the opening ceremony of the […]
March 20, 2017

Malawai Changes Law To End Child Marriage

Malawi has made a historic amendment to its constitution to fully outlaw child marriage following a year-long campaign […]
March 16, 2017

Jasvinder Sanghera: I ran away to escape a forced marriage

Jasvinder Sanghera was locked in a room by her parents when she was 16, when she refused to […]
March 16, 2017

Boris Johnson: The world would be a better place if all girls went to school

I am always dubious about so-called silver bullets that allegedly solve a host of problems. “Life can’t be […]
March 16, 2017

Inside Britain’s sharia councils: hardline and anti-women – or a dignified way to divorce?

On a freezing, rainswept Sunday in a conference room in Birmingham Central mosque, a young woman in a […]
March 16, 2017

Bangladesh: Legalizing Child Marriage Threatens Girls’ Safety

The Bangladesh Government should move quickly to adopt regulations to limit the harms of a new law that […]
March 16, 2017

Women are suffering globally – we must act now

We, the members of the scientific and technical advisory group and the gender and rights advisory panel of […]
March 16, 2017

Governor Cuomo Announces New Legislation to End Child Marriage

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is advancing new legislation to end child marriage by raising […]
March 13, 2017

3 Photographs That Tell The Whole Truth About Female Genital Mutilation (NSFW)

Elisabeth Ubbe was a young nursing student at a Swedish hospital back in the ‘90s when a doctor […]
March 8, 2017

International Women’s Day: Encouragement in Courageous Women and Girls

Written by Amanda Parker At a recent lecture I attended, AHA Foundation founder Ayaan Hirsi Ali discussed why […]
February 27, 2017

Virginia joins global movement to criminalize female circumcision

Virginia’s General Assembly unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on female genital mutilation, criminalizing the procedure with […]
February 23, 2017

Massachusetts Bill Criminalizing FGM is in Motion, A Look at AHA from an Intern’s Perspective, Ways You Can Raise Awareness About Women’s Rights, and more…

Dear AHA Foundation Supporter, I hope that your 2017 is off to a wonderful start. At the AHA Foundation, […]
February 23, 2017

Massachusetts Bill Criminalizing FGM is Gaining Momentum – You Can Help Move It Forward

FGM in the US Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a practice the AHA Foundation has advocated against with […]
February 23, 2017

Whether you have 5 Minutes or 1 Hour Every Month – You can make a Difference for Women’s Rights

*Photo Credit to Susan Landmann Becoming engaged to make a difference in the fight for women’s rights and […]
February 23, 2017

Behind the Scenes of the AHA Foundation – From the Intern’s Perspective

I came to the AHA Foundation after receiving my Master’s Degree in International Business and Global Studies. I […]
February 20, 2017

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia? – An Oped by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Originally published in The Australian: 12:00AM February 18, 2017 Yassmin Abdel-Magied, an Islamic activist, has been paid by […]
February 20, 2017

UN General Assembly Adopts 2nd Resolution on Child, Early, and Forced Marriage

On 19 December 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a second resolution on child, early and […]
February 20, 2017

Government to enlist clerics in fight against child marriage in Indonesia

The government has decided to seek unlikely allies in its struggle to end child marriage: religious leaders, the […]