Forced Marriage

The U.S. has no national law banning child marriage. Click here to see where each state stands in the fight against forced child [...]

Watch Payzee Mahmod’s message urging the U.K. to ban child marriage. “I didn’t realise it at the time what it was [an [...]

Why we need to pledge to protect survivors’ dignity The anti-modern slavery sector relies on strong stories and eye-catching [...]

Momentum is growing to repeal laws that enable convicted rapists to marry their victims to avoid punishment. As well as the horrors [...]

Forced child marriage is a form of modern slavery, and in Yemen, the problem is widespread as there is currently no law making it [...]

Brave Iraqi women have been fighting against removing the minimum age for marriage, for their sake and for the sake of their daughters. [...]

Child marriage happens in many places around the world. In fact, about 10% of the global population has been married before they turn 18.

Every two seconds, a child becomes a victim of forced marriage. This egregious child rights violation robs millions of their [...]

Experts believe that if the Nigerian Government acts immediately and uses every resource at its disposal, it can locate the girls and [...]

Three-quarters of girls in Niger are married before they are adults. Child marriage often amounts to slavery, for example, when [...]

Forced child marriage amongst the Syrian refugee population in Jordan is rising sharply as more and more families see child marriage as [...]

Thousands of women and children in Iraq are being forced into marriage and sexual slavery by members of ISIS. Slavery is such a [...]