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October 10, 2017
Saibo Jawo, an ex-circumciser and some of her colleagues in Nafugan village in the Upper River Region have […]
October 7, 2017
As the world marks International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, Girls Not Brides is calling […]
October 7, 2017
Talking about female genital mutilation (FGM) makes people uncomfortable. I get that. Who wants to think about vaginas […]
October 7, 2017
Enter the term “FGM” in Google Images and you will find pictures related to female genital mutilation on […]
October 5, 2017
Guatemala has taken a huge step forward for girls, officially outlawing child marriage following years of advocacy by […]
October 5, 2017
The United Nations called on Arab nations on Wednesday to calculate the economic cost of violence against women, […]
October 3, 2017
No one really knows for sure how many underage girls are getting married in the country of Georgia. […]
October 3, 2017
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has […]
September 29, 2017
When Malaika was 6, she travelled with her family on an airplane for the first time, on a […]
September 29, 2017
Texas has one of the highest child marriage rates in the country, but a new law seeks to […]
September 29, 2017
There may be nothing more corrosive to our societies than allowing this assault to continue. Yet there are […]
September 26, 2017
On September 20, a man in Peshawar killed his two daughters because he thought they had boyfriends, and felt […]
September 25, 2017
World leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York this past week. At the 72nd General Assembly, […]
September 25, 2017
After a shocking investigation by the Dayton Daily News earlier this month which revealed that more than 4,400 girls younger than 17 […]
September 22, 2017
It’s likely that some Americans assume child marriage happens only in developing nations, where one in three girls are married […]