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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 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 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 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.
December 21, 2016 Dispatches

After a Grim 2016, Some Good News for Children

Progress in Fight Against Child Soldier Use, Violence, Child Marriage

Internally displaced children attending classes at a displacement camp in Maiduguri, Borno state, September 2015.
December 7, 2016 Dispatches

Ending Child Marriage Everywhere—Including in the West

US and European Countries Allow Too Many Children to Marry

One of a group of activists in wedding dresses, protesting in support of a bill to end child marriage in New Jersey United States, July 2016.
December 1, 2016 Dispatches

Stigma Around Periods Should End. Period

Woman’s death in a ‘menstruation hut’ in Nepal shines light on dangerous taboo

A chaupadi hut, in a family's yard, where female members of the family are obliged to sleep during their menstrual periods. Kailali district, western Nepal.
December 1, 2016 Dispatches

Huge Step Backwards on Child Marriage in Bangladesh

Parliament is the last hope for preventing legalized child marriage

Bangladesh: Child Marriage
November 21, 2016 Letter

Human Rights Watch submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Malawi

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.
November 3, 2016 Dispatches

Good News for Child Protection in Malawi

Decision to Redefine Childhood Should Help Deter Child Marriage

A 14-year-old girl holds her baby at her sister’s home in a village in Kanduku, in Malawi’s Mwanza district. She married in September 2013, but her husband chased her away. Her 15-year-old sister, in the background, married when she was 12.
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.

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