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December 18, 2020
Congress delivered a long-overdue holiday gift to thousands of young women and girls in the United States. The […]
December 17, 2020
A rare worthwhile bipartisan bill has passed Congress that will outlaw female genital mutilation as a matter of federal law. […]
December 14, 2020
A rights group found evidence of 2,000 women, including some 200 minors, in Germany last year who underwent […]
December 10, 2020
A deep, sonorous melody pierces the night sky when young Samburu warriors celebrate an impending marriage. These songs, […]
December 10, 2020
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 7- President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday said the government is considering adopting the use of […]
December 9, 2020
Sudanese authorities have announced they will end child marriage and enforce the country’s ban on female genital mutilation […]
December 9, 2020
Last January, a married couple from Dublin were jailed for the genital mutilation of their infant daughter. The […]
December 3, 2020
Women are being offered controversial “virginity tests” at British medical clinics, an investigation by BBC Newsbeat and 100 Women has […]
November 13, 2020
The Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading the bill prohibiting and declaring child marriage as […]
November 13, 2020
In a bid to end the harmful practice of child marriage across Maharashtra, the Women and Child Development […]
November 13, 2020
Narok South Deputy County Commissioner Felix Kisalu said the seven, five girls and two women who were arrested […]
October 23, 2020
Kenya has seen a setback in its progress to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) after an open parade in […]
October 6, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic could lead to a spike in child marriages globally, reversing 25 years of progress on […]
October 6, 2020
When Payzee Mahmod was married at 16 to a man nearly twice her age she didn’t understand the […]
October 6, 2020
This is not the first time I’ve lived through a lockdown. For most of my teenage years I […]