Child Brides Film Wins Murrow Award

May 7, 2008 at 3:37 pm · Filed under Ending Violence Against Women, Youth, Gender

Mamta, one of the girls featured in Child Brides: Stolen lives. Image courtesy of NOW on PBSChild 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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