AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage

“[E]veryone knows mullahs marry [people] at an early age,” the head of a community elders court told me […]

Ramallah, November 19, 2016—“I wish I could do it now,” said 24-year-old West Bank resident Basma, of the […]

The first time Muklesha was sold, she was just 12 years old. Her buyer was a man in […]

Millions of girls are married as children. This fact harms our human family and reminds us how deeply […]

The new legislation includes a provision allowing child marriage in ‘special cases’, such as if a girl becomes pregnant accidentally […]

Child marriage is a national crisis in Indonesia that continues to receive little attention both domestically and globally, […]

Today, Cameroon became the 16th country to launch the African Union campaign to end child marriage in Africa, […]

According to Girls Not Brides, Malawi has the highest rate of child marriages worldwide, with roughly one in […]

Zimbabwe joined the AU Campaign to end child marriages in mid-2015. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and […]

It was after floods washed away her family’s river-front land in Bangladesh’s northern Jamalpur district that Brishti Rafiq’s […]

Rates of child marriage have increased dramatically as a result of mass migration worldwide. Humanitarian crises greatly exacerbate […]

When Malawi passed a law banning child marriage last year, activists applauded it as a significant first step […]

In 2011, Fraidy Reiss founded Unchained at Last, a New Jersey nonprofit that has helped 250 girls and women […]

Child marriage is prevalent across Vietnam, with almost all localities recording child marriage cases, which have serious consequences […]