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June 23, 2015
Naila Amin was a child bride who was betrothed to her first cousin when she was 8. Naila […]
June 18, 2015
“The Price of Honor,” a documentary chronicling the honor killings of two girls, Sarah and Amina, premiered in […]
June 17, 2015
New York State Assembly Member Amy Paulin passed legislation through the New York State Assembly and Senate regarding […]
June 13, 2015
PM David Cameron has ordered ministers to expedite measures to enable local authorities, social workers, or police to […]
June 11, 2015
The UK non-profit Forward recently released a video showing the effects of female genital mutilation. The video, “Needlepoint,” […]
June 10, 2015
A businessman in the UK was sentenced to 16 years in jail after forcing a 25-year-old to marry […]
June 4, 2015
Social anthropologist Kameel Ahmady recently released a study finding that female genital mutilation is practiced in at least […]
June 3, 2015
Nigeria banned female genital mutilation this month, a practice that is estimated to have affected 130 million women […]
May 26, 2015
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt joins Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the AHA Foundation in the fight against honor […]
May 22, 2015
To the extent that female genital mutilation makes the news, most of the attention is not focused on […]
May 20, 2015
This piece focuses on the idea that governments currently forming sustainable development goals to change the world by […]
May 20, 2015
Nadia Irsan is now among family members accused of murdering Gelareh Bagherzadeh and Coty Beavers. It is alleged […]
May 19, 2015
Funding from Western donors has led to the creation of women’s shelters throughout Afghanistan. The shelters, and the […]
May 19, 2015
Fraidy Reiss started the organization ‘Unchained at Last’ to support victims of forced marriage after her own experience […]
May 19, 2015
In her profile of Ayaan and her new book Heretic, Elizabeth Renzetti of The Globe and Mail writes, “As a […]