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November 4, 2016
In 2011, Fraidy Reiss founded Unchained at Last, a New Jersey nonprofit that has helped 250 girls and women […]
November 3, 2016
Child marriage is prevalent across Vietnam, with almost all localities recording child marriage cases, which have serious consequences […]
November 3, 2016
A five-year project aimed at eradicating child marriage in some parts of the country has been launched in […]
November 3, 2016
A new report by the United Nation Population Fund finds that our collective future rests on how we support the world’s 60 […]
October 28, 2016
One in five girls in Pakistan gets married by the age of 18. Many are poor. And many get […]
October 24, 2016
“I was forced into marriage by my father at the age of 14,” Faouzia Yaya, now 17, told […]
October 24, 2016
A Malawian traditional leader has taken it upon herself to discourage the prevalence of child marriages within her […]
October 24, 2016
Emma Watson today issued an impassioned plea to end child marriage to mark the International Day of the Girl Child. The […]
October 24, 2016
A joint session of the Parliament unanimously approved anti-honour killing and anti-rape bills moved by PPP Senator Farhatullah […]
October 24, 2016
Last year, we saw a major milestone reached in the campaign to end child marriage. The first global […]
October 24, 2016
Today, International Day of the Girl Child gives us an opportunity to reflect on the perils faced by […]
October 24, 2016
Child marriage is on the rise among Syrian refugees. Without the means to provide for their families, parents […]
October 24, 2016
The incredible story of one woman’s escape from a marriage arranged by her parents, as shared through Facebook […]
October 10, 2016
For generations now in Pakistan, they’ve called it “honour” killing, carried out in the name of a family’s […]
October 10, 2016
Lawmakers in Pakistan passed a much-anticipated new law that mandates a stiff penalty for those convicted of so-called […]