CFM threatens the lives and futures of girls and women around the world, robbing them of their agency to make decisions about their lives, disrupting their education, making them more vulnerable to violence, discrimination and abuse, and preventing their full participation in economic, political and social spheres. In recent years, actions to end child and forced marriage have increased at international, regional and national levels (see A/HRC/RES/24/23; A/HRC/26/22; A/HRC/35/5; A/HRC/41/19; A/71/253; A/73/257; A/75/262).

And because Cook was not yet in a life-threatening situation, the doctors couldn’t intervene to save her. For example, a 2017 study of female Swedish athletes found that the participants felt they were forced to choose between a body that performs well in their athletic field, or a fashionable body. Societal pressure breeds the thinking that a woman who is a mother will be responsible and duty conscious. In over 20 conflict-affected countries, NRC provides legal aid to people forced to flee, so that they can claim their rights and build a new future.When abortion is illegal or inaccessible, often young girls’ lives are at risk through clandestine abortions or having to give birth.

She was well into her second trimester – 16 weeks – but having suffered 17 miscarriages in two years, she had learned not to get hopeful too early.The majority of the population of the Gaza Strip in Palestine is dependent on steadily diminishing international relief. Staffordshire University has ranked Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) recognising that its provision is ‘very high quality’. View image in fullscreen Samantha Casiano’s keepsakes are safeguarded in her home to honor the life and memory of her fifth child, Halo Hope Villasana. Because of this, Amnesty International is highlighting the brave actions of the women and men campaigning to end Iran’s forced veiling laws and is demanding that the Iranian authorities free the women’s rights defenders who remain in prison.