girls' rights
When Opportunity Knocks, Where Are Our Girls?
July 15, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
The high opportunity costs of child marriage undermine social and economic development and the health and well-being of families.
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Selecting the Same Sex
by Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine
August 10, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)
While sex selective abortion allows women to make what is, in a sense, the ultimate in supposedly informed consumerism, it also can work to create a world where being female is viewed as the primary and most terminal of birth defects.
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Giving Girls a Choice and a Chance
by Beth Fredrick, International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)
May 20, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)
Legislation to prevent child marriage around the globe was just introduced in both the House and Senate that will give girls who are married too young a choice and a chance.
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Colombia Confronts Female Genital Mutilation
by Angela Castellanos, RH Reality Check, Latin America
August 18, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
Until 2007, Colombians believed that female genital mutilation was a practice unique to some African countries. But last year we learned that it has long been practiced by one of Colombia's aboriginal groups.
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Child Marriage: We Have Solutions
by Kathy Selvaggio, International Center for Research on Women
May 20, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)
We know what works to increase age of marriage in communities where child marriage is common. So why are so few Republicans backing legislation to support those development programs?
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When India's Resources Mobilize to Save a Girl Child
by Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check, Asia
May 7, 2008 - 7:40am (Print)
In India, there are laws to prevent dowry, domestic violence, sexual harassment and child marriage. But in the country's social context, these laws aren't very effective.
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