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Joint Statement and Recommendations By the Child, Early & Forced Marriage & Unions and Sexuality Working Group, and Partners

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June 3, 2020 by AJWS Staff

Joint Statement and Recommendations By the Child, Early & Forced Marriage & Unions and Sexuality Working Group, and Partners

The global pandemic COVID-19 lays bare and exacerbates existing inequalities. For adolescent girls and young women in many places, this means that the harmful impacts of patriarchy and gender inequality are magnified and intensified. The coronavirus pandemic and associated lockdowns heighten the perpetration of gender-based violence; elevate risks of child, early and forced marriage and …

April 24, 2018 by Margo Mullinax

Adolescent Sexual Violence: A Silent, Global Epidemic That Needs Our Attention

We are at a critical moment for changing how the world responds to sexual violence. It is imperative that the voices of adolescent girls and boys be a part of this moment.

August 16, 2017

We Need To Talk About Child Marriage

As I have every August in recent years, I am busy preparing my children to return to school. While I am excited for them to continue learning and growing, I can’t help but think about the millions of children—especially girls—in other parts of the world who are denied the right to an education. Tragically, many …

August 16, 2017 by Bea Wilderman

Why I Care about Ending Child Marriage

In the next year alone, about 15 million girls will be married before they turn 18. These girls often have little say in the matter, and they face family pressure to drop out of school. In fact, that’s exactly what happened to my grandmother, Beatrice.

June 8, 2017

Through Her Photographs, Stephanie Sinclair Is Putting a Face to Child Marriage

When noted photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair learned she’d won this year’s Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award—given by the International Women’s Media Foundation and named for the German photojournalist who was killed in 2014 while completing an assignment in Afghanistan—things were a bit chaotic in her life. Just two weeks prior, she had returned home to New York …

March 8, 2018 by AJWS Staff

When Women Lead: Manju’s Story

RAJASTHAN, INDIA — At 23, Manju Kumari is already a sarpanch, the elected head of her rural village. And she’s one of a rising number of women in India filling these political positions, ever since the government reserved a proportion of village leadership seats for women. But in the face of longstanding gender inequality and …

October 11, 2017 by Andrew Blossom

Hope for Her Daughters: Rekha’s Story

“Hope for Her Daughters” tells the story of Rekha, who was married at 12 and had her first child at 13. She earns her living by sorting out recyclables from garbage, a difficult and sometimes dangerous job that’s fallen to extremely low-income families in India. Rekha presumed her daughters would have no choice but to follow the same path–until she got involved with Kashtakari Panchayat, an AJWS grantee.

April 22, 2016 by Elizabeth Daube

Something Different for Our Daughters: Mangal & Shital’s Story

At just 14 years old, Mangal Waikar’s parents pressured her into a marriage she didn’t want. As she began raising her own children, she wondered: how could she keep them from following the same path? Set in rural Maharashtra, India, “Something Different for Our Daughters” tells the story of how Mangal and her daughter, Shital, …

March 8, 2016 by Alana Harper

Girls Build a Better Future in India

Watch our new animated video about AJWS’s work to end child marriage in India. AJWS supports efforts to end child marriage by bringing girls and young women together to define their own futures. Together we’re supporting girls in India to live with the dignity, safety and independence they deserve. Learn more about AJWS’s work to …

February 10, 2016 by Andrew Blossom

On the Road: Khushi’s Story

As a teenager, Khushi Prajapati worried for her future. Her family had lost everything. Forced to move to a Delhi slum, she worked long hours as a maid, but the family could barely make ends meet. If she didn’t figure out a plan for her future, Khushi faced the likely prospect of an unwanted, early …