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Child Lives: Stolen Lives, the NOW on PBS program that screened at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in January, has received the Edward R. Murrow Award for best TV interpretation or documentary on international affairs from the Overseas Press Club (OPC). 

At the panel discussion following the Hopkins screening, journalist Maria Hinojosa discussed the media’s role in exposing under-reported stories affecting women and girls around the world, like child marriage. She said,

The issue of child marriage gets glossed over… But this practice sets [girls] off for life impoverished, disempowered, and at risk for all these health issues.

Read more about the panel, organized with ICRW and featuring additional child marriage experts from Hopkins, the Population Council, and TOSTAN, at INFO’s press archive.

All the winners of the OPC’s Edward Murrow awards are listed on their site.

Listen to Maria Hinojosa speak with broadcast news reporter Marc Steiner about the serious health consequences of child marriage.

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Stephanie Sinclair, one of global health’s most powerful lenswomen, has photographed children forced into marriage as young as eight. Her intimate portraits of girls in Nepal, Afghanistan and Ethiopia, first published in the the New York Times Magazine, have won accolades from UNICEF. Now, combined with priceless audio recordings of these girls’ stories, the images become yet more powerful in a The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide, a 6 minute video that you can watch on the International Center for Research on Women’s YouTube channel.

On February 6th, I attended a great symposium titled, “Lessons Learned from over a Decade of Evaluating Approaches to Encourage the Abandonment of FGM/C”, organized by Population Council’s Frontiers Project. The Symposium highlighted the evaluation of a number of interventions throughout the last 10 years, highlighting work done by Tostan.

The Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program has documented 10 lessons to successfully bring about change in the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). They include:

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As featured in this month’s End Violence against Women newsletter, the video “Honor Killings and Suicides,” brings to light the major issue of honor killings as predicated, gender-specific murders, taking a look at the practice specifically within Turkish society today.

This short video speaks to the experiences of several Turkish women who have been literally threatened to death by their own families and in-laws. Many times these women are victims of sexual violence or accused of adultery, and are then terrorized with threats of murder by their own relatives in an effort to preserve family honor. Read the rest of this entry »