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December 6, 2016
A year after Guatemala passed a law banning child marriage, poor families who regard girls as a financial […]
December 6, 2016
“[E]veryone knows mullahs marry [people] at an early age,” the head of a community elders court told me […]
December 6, 2016
Ramallah, November 19, 2016—“I wish I could do it now,” said 24-year-old West Bank resident Basma, of the […]
December 6, 2016
The first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in […]
December 6, 2016
Turkey’s government has withdrawn a controversial bill that would have granted amnesty to some men convicted of child […]
December 6, 2016
Millions of girls are married as children. This fact harms our human family and reminds us how deeply […]
December 6, 2016
The new legislation includes a provision allowing child marriage in ‘special cases’, such as if a girl becomes pregnant accidentally […]
December 6, 2016
Child marriage is a national crisis in Indonesia that continues to receive little attention both domestically and globally, […]
December 6, 2016
Today, Cameroon became the 16th country to launch the African Union campaign to end child marriage in Africa, […]
December 5, 2016
A teenage girl and her male cousin were killed over the pretext of karo-kari at village Rasool Bakhsh […]
November 21, 2016
A bill which would allow men accused of raping underage girls to be cleared if they marry the […]
November 4, 2016
According to Girls Not Brides, Malawi has the highest rate of child marriages worldwide, with roughly one in […]
November 4, 2016
Zimbabwe joined the AU Campaign to end child marriages in mid-2015. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and […]
November 4, 2016
It was after floods washed away her family’s river-front land in Bangladesh’s northern Jamalpur district that Brishti Rafiq’s […]
November 4, 2016
Rates of child marriage have increased dramatically as a result of mass migration worldwide. Humanitarian crises greatly exacerbate […]