AHA Foundation news on legislative protections for women’s rights
August 15, 2017
As expected, legislation was filed Monday in the Florida Senate to ban minors from getting married. The bill […]
August 10, 2017
Maine’s legislature failed to protect little girls from a horrible mutilation practice, so the bill’s sponsor now is […]
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 7, 2017
The NSPCC report of increasing calls in relation to forced marriage (Report, 31 July) is alarming. In 2016 more […]
August 3, 2017
A bill that would make female genital mutilation a crime in Maine is officially dead. Earlier Wednesday, a […]
August 1, 2017
A Maine lawmaker says she’s not giving up on a bill that appears to be dead. Rep. Heather […]
July 31, 2017
With an investigation into the genital mutilation of girls in Michigan continuing, a metro Detroit congressman is calling […]
July 27, 2017
State legislators in the U.S. can no longer plead ignorance about child marriage in America. Not now that […]