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February 14, 2017 News Release

US: In New York, Children as Young as 14 Can Marry

End Child Marriage in New York State

Sonia Ossorio of NOW-NYC addresses the crowd at a protest against US laws allowing child marriage.
February 14, 2017 News Release

Tanzania: 1.5 Million Adolescents Not in School

Government Policies Undermine Move for Free Secondary Education

More than 120 Form II students prepare to sit their mock exams in a secondary school in Mwanza, northwestern Tanzania.
February 13, 2017 Dispatches

It’s Time to End Child Marriage in New York

State Law is Out of Step with International Norms

Sonia Ossorio of NOW-NYC addresses the crowd at a protest against US laws allowing child marriage.
February 13, 2017 Witness

Witness: Child Marriage in the US

Fraidy Reiss at a Chain-In protest in 2015.
February 13, 2017 Letter

Letter to the New York State Assembly and Senate Requesting Support for State Assembly Bill A.5524 and Senate Bill S.4407 to Help End Child Marriage in New York

February 8, 2017 Dispatches

Indonesia’s Aceh Authorities Lash Hundreds Under Sharia Statutes

Repeal of Discriminatory, Brutal Bylaws Long Overdue

Murni Amris, an Acehnese woman, is caned as part of her sentence in the courtyard of a mosque in Aceh Besar district, Indonesia's Aceh province October 1, 2010.
February 7, 2017 Commentary

Paid Family Leave Matters — For All Workers

February 7, 2017 Commentary

Widowed, Left with Nothing

Two widows in eastern Zimbabwe, facing harassment from in-laws who are trying to force them to vacate their homes and fields. Rural Eastern Zimbabwe, October 2016.
February 6, 2017 Dispatches

An Experience of Pain and Anguish

African Governments Should Do More to End Female Genital Mutilation

Pion H., 12, was 10-years-old when her father tried to force her to undergo female genital mutilation (FG M) and marry a much older man.
February 6, 2017 News Release

Burma: Security Forces Raped Rohingya Women, Girls

New Eyewitness Accounts Show Systematic Attacks Based on Ethnicity, Religion

A Rohingya Muslim woman walks at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on February 4, 2017.
February 1, 2017 Commentary

If You Don’t Want Child Brides in Bangladesh, Don’t Accept Them Here in Britain Either

Bangladesh: Child Marriage
January 31, 2017 Dispatches

Scourge of Child Marriage in Africa Continues

1 in 4 Girls Marry Before 18 Despite African Leaders’ Efforts

January 30, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission to the CEDAW Committee of Oman’s Periodic Report Pre-Sessional Working Group for the 68th Session

January 26, 2017 Dispatches

Marrying Your Rapist in Malaysia

Men Try to Avoid Rape Charges Through Forced Child Marriage

A woman walks past birdcages after she crossed the border from Malaysia into Thailand in Sungai Kolok in southern Narathiwat province March 8, 2013.
January 26, 2017 Dispatches

Showing Up Is Not Enough, Theresa May

British Prime Minister Should Press President Trump On Women’s Rights

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after delivering her keynote speech on Brexit at Lancaster House in London, January 17, 2017.

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