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March 8, 2016
While there were 1,220 possible cases of forced marriages reported in Britain last year, experts are saying that the […]
March 2, 2016
Pakistani police are looking for a man suspected of killing his two sisters in an act of honor […]
February 29, 2016
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, director of the film “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”, was awarded the […]
February 27, 2016
Vulture interviews Deniz Gamze Ergüven, director of the Oscar-nominated film Mustang. The film tells the story of five Turkish teenage girls […]
February 23, 2016
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy addresses the problem of honor killings in her Oscar-nominated documentary short, “A Girl in the River: […]
February 19, 2016
Virginia State Senator Jill Vogel began a campaign against child marriage in her state after she learned of […]
February 17, 2016
A new YouTube video has received a lot of attention and is highlighting the issue of child brides. […]
February 5, 2016
Two women in Australia were convicted on charges of “khatna,” a procedure involves cutting a girl’s clitoris in the presence […]
February 5, 2016
UNICEF released a report highlighting the global problem of female genital mutilation (FGM). According to the report, at […]
January 30, 2016
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof sheds light on the Oscar-winning documentary “A Girl in the River: The Price […]
January 30, 2016
Many homosexuals in Somalia keep their sexuality a secret out of fear of retribution from al-Shabaab, the Islamist terror […]
January 28, 2016
Sundance Film Festival is screening the film “Sonita,” a documentary by Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami. The film […]
January 27, 2016
In the Pakistani district of Thar, child brides are very common. Girls are often married at 9 and […]
January 25, 2016
The Diane Rehm show featured a story of honor violence: a Afghan woman decided she wanted to choose […]
January 14, 2016
According to a recently released government study, more than a half a million girls are at risk of […]