AHA Foundation news on child marriage and forced marriage
August 17, 2017
The term ‘child marriage’ is used to describe a legal or customary union between two people, of whom […]
August 16, 2017
I was quite alarmed by new research on the economic impacts of child marriage released a few weeks ago in […]
August 16, 2017
As I have every August in recent years, I am busy preparing my children to return to school. […]
August 15, 2017
As expected, legislation was filed Monday in the Florida Senate to ban minors from getting married. The bill […]
August 10, 2017
Progress towards ending child marriage in Nepal appears to have ground to a halt, despite early hopes. Nepal, […]
August 10, 2017
Back in May 2001, a bill was introduced into the Alabama Senate that sought to raise the age […]
August 8, 2017
Iranian lawmaker Fatemeh Zolqadr said the Iranian Parliament, in coordination with the country’s Vice-Presidency for Women and Family […]
August 8, 2017
Bangladesh has the fourth-highest rate of child marriage in the world. Though the numbers have reportedly declined in the last […]
August 8, 2017
A child bride taken to Bangladesh and forced into marriage at 15 says August is the ‘hot month’ […]
August 7, 2017
The NSPCC report of increasing calls in relation to forced marriage (Report, 31 July) is alarming. In 2016 more […]
July 31, 2017
A girl aged just five has reportedly been forced into marriage with a 22-year-old man in Pakistan. Police were […]
July 27, 2017
State legislators in the U.S. can no longer plead ignorance about child marriage in America. Not now that […]
July 24, 2017
A law passed during the New York legislative session that ended the practice of child marriage went into […]
July 24, 2017
At 14, Jenipher Sanni married a man who already had a wife and kids. He yelled at her […]
July 13, 2017
She was raped as a child. She was pregnant at age 10. She was forced to marry her […]