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February 15, 2017 Commentary

Tanzania Policy of Kicking Pregnant Girls out of School is Shameful

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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 14, 2017 Interview

‘What Is My Future After This?’

Secondary Education Inaccessible for Many Children in Tanzania

An unfinished science laboratory next to a classroom at a secondary school in Shinyanga region, northern Tanzania.
January 24, 2017 Witness

Witness: “I Will Not Let This Happen Again”

After Losing Their Husbands, Zimbabwe’s Widows Face Losing Their Land, Property, and Livelihood

Moud Gohwa Taremeredzwa is a Zimbabwean widow who successfully fought property grabbing relatives in court
January 24, 2017 News Release

Zimbabwe: Widows Deprived of Property Rights

Property Grabbing Leaves Many Older Women Destitute

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.
November 10, 2016 Commentary

Nepal’s Child ‘Love Marriages’ Need Regulation Too

Lalita B.,17, had an arranged marriage at the age of 12 with a 37-year-old man.
October 24, 2016 News Release

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Urgent Measures Needed to Address Shortages of Medicine, Food

Leidy Cordova, 37, with four of her five children at their home in Cumana, Venezuela, June 16, 2016. Their broken refrigerator held the only food in the house: a bag of corn flour and a bottle of vinegar.
October 11, 2016 Dispatches

Fulfilling the Promise of Ending Child Marriage

Join Call for End of Abusive Practice On International Day of the Child

Ganga M., 17, sits inside her home in Kailali, Nepal. Ganga had an arranged marriage at the age of 16 and was five months pregnant when this photograph was taken. Her husband works as a cook in India.
September 27, 2016 Witness

Witness: “The Mining Company Brought Me Problems”

Unregulated Promotion of Mining in Malawi Causing Hazards and Hardships

Young girl washing dishes at a borehole near Eland coal mine in Mwabulambo, Karonga district.
September 27, 2016 News Release

Malawi: Mining Puts Residents at Risk

Urgent Need to Protect Rights of Lake Malawi Communities

Nagomba E., 75, standing where her house used to be in Mwabulambo, Karonga district. She and her family were told to relocate in 2008 because the land was needed for coal mining.
September 9, 2016 Commentary

Teaching Child Brides About Condoms in Rural Nepal

A five-year-old girl sits in a nursery school, which she is attending with a scholarship funded by a private sponsor. Quality education provides protection from child marriage—girls who are in school are less likely to marry. April 12, 2016.
September 8, 2016 Commentary

In Nepal, Young Girls are Being Married Off Simply So They Can Eat

Sharmila G., 14, eloped at age 12 and married an 18-year-old man. At the time this picture was taken she was seven months pregnant. She said that when rumors spread in her village about her relationship with her then-boyfriend, her parents tried to separa
September 8, 2016 Witness

Witness: Nepal’s Child Brides And Grooms

Nepal Has The Third Highest Rate of Child Marriage in Asia

Manju M., 16, Tilmaya M., 18, and Sangeeta M., 19, wait with their children outside of a doctor’s office in Chitwan, Nepal. The parents of Manju M. arranged her marriage to a 19-year-old man when she was 15. Tilmaya M. eloped and married a 20-year-old man
September 8, 2016 News Release

Nepal: Child Marriage Threatens Girls’ Futures

Government Breaking Promises for Reform

Lalita B.,17, had an arranged marriage at the age of 12 with a 37-year-old man.
July 21, 2016 Report

Rwanda: Locking Up the Poor

New Findings of Arbitrary Detention, Ill-Treatment in “Transit Centers”

A street in Rwanda's capital Kigali, May 11, 2016.

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