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Category: Forced Marriage

payzee mahmod campaigner

Safeguard Futures: End child marriage

“I didn’t realise it at the time what it was [an exploitative marriage] but I feel it was mental abuse that stayed with me for many [...]

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Jeremy Abrahams, Unhidden Project

My Story, My Dignity Pledge

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Help End Forced Marriage in Lebanon

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

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Show your support for a Yemen free of Forced Child Marriage

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

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Forced Child Marriage in Iraq

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

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Explore Child Marriage in Bangladesh

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

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Join the Fight against Forced Child Marriage

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

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Nigerian President: Bring Back Our Girls from Forced Child Marriage

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

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Outlaw forced child marriage in Niger

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

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End child marriage in Jordan

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

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ISIS and slavery in Iraq

Take slavery in Iraq to the International Criminal Court

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

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