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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.
October 11, 2016 Dispatches

Tanzania Needs to Renew Commitment to Ending Child Marriage

Withdraw Appeal of High Court Ruling, Review Archaic Marriage Act

September 22, 2016 Dispatches

Fragile Progress in Global Fight Against Child Marriage

While Percentage of Girls Marrying Drops, Overall Numbers Climb Higher

Lalita B., 17, had an arranged marriage at the age of 12 with a 37-year-old man. She became pregnant soon after marriage, and two of her newborns died. Lalita’s third child survived. Lalita’s husband abandoned her in 2015 and married another woman.
September 20, 2016 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission to the CEDAW Committee

Consideration of Bangladesh’s Periodic Report, 65th Session

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

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