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March 16, 2017
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he is advancing new legislation to end child marriage by raising […]
March 13, 2017
Elisabeth Ubbe was a young nursing student at a Swedish hospital back in the ‘90s when a doctor […]
February 27, 2017
Virginia’s General Assembly unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on female genital mutilation, criminalizing the procedure with […]
February 20, 2017
Originally published in The Australian: 12:00AM February 18, 2017 Yassmin Abdel-Magied, an Islamic activist, has been paid by […]
February 20, 2017
On 19 December 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a second resolution on child, early and […]
February 20, 2017
The government has decided to seek unlikely allies in its struggle to end child marriage: religious leaders, the […]
February 20, 2017
“I’ve never experienced happiness in my marriage. I’ve never seen the benefit of being married,” Chimwemwe told me […]
February 20, 2017
At only 16 years old, Suha had not thought about marriage until her father told her she would […]
February 20, 2017
“But child marriage is legal in the UK—so why shouldn’t it be allowed here?” Those were the words […]
February 20, 2017
Michelle DeMello walked into the clerk’s office in Colorado thinking for sure someone would save her. She was […]
February 20, 2017
An armed mob that included relatives of a young woman who had eloped with her lover stormed a […]
February 20, 2017
The Virginia Senate unanimously passed a bill that would criminalize the act of female genital mutilation by categorizing […]
February 20, 2017
The General Assembly is considering a bill that would make the practice of female genital mutilation a misdemeanor […]
February 20, 2017
Unchained at Last’s has displayed incredible leadership on criminalizing child marriage in the US. Child advocates in New York […]
February 20, 2017
Pakistan has interdicted child marriage and hardened penalties for those guilty of the crime in an effort to […]