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Saving Innocence: The Global Fight to End Child Marriage

<p>This month, <em>America Abroad</em> travels to Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nepal and Pakistan to talk to individuals and organizations working to change laws and change minds about child marriage. We also talk to Mabel van Oranje, the founder of Girls Not Brides, who aims to end child marriage in one generation.</p>

America Abroad

Goats at Leach Farms in upstate New York.

Culture

Some immigrants in New York prefer to slaughter animals themselves. There's a farm that wants to help.

Development

Nepali immigrants who came to the US after the 2015 earthquake can stay a little longer

Author Anna Dahlqvist talking with Saudah, a teenager in Kampala, Uganda

Women & Girls

The 'menstrual awakening': Shattering the period stigma

Young Africans seek to leverage Vice President Harris’ trip to Africa 

50 years ago, Nixon announced the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam

A student shows a piece of ceramic in the archaeological excavation near Salbitz, central Germany, on Friday, April 8, 2011.

States at dawn: Part I

The Kyiv Pesherska Lavra, the Monastery of the Caves, in Kyiv, Ukraine, ornate cathedral, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it’s the heart of Ukrainian Orthodoxy.

Ukraine

Divisions among Orthodox church communities widen amid war in Ukraine

Music

The astonishing life and music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the Ethiopian nun who has died at 99

Raising the street protest to art form: synchronized megaphone barkers sang and chanted in unison to fire up the crowds.

Protest

In France, students prove an unlikely ally in protests against pension reform

Montreal Canadiens superfans brace for historic record to be smashed

The sword of the Royal House of Avis on a stylized cross decorates the 56-meter high Monument to the Discoveries by the Tagus river in Lisbon, Thursday, March 30, 2023. 

Justice

Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery after years of pressure from Indigenous activists

Protesters hold posters calling for protection of Indigenous lands amid growing number of development projects in the Philippines.

Environment

The Philippines is among the most dangerous places in the world for environmental activists

Arts, Culture & Media

Series of reimagined African folk tales launches on Netflix

Shreesha Duwal doing chores at the temporary camp in Bhaktapur where she and her family moved after their house was destroyed in the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. 

A feisty 12-year-old shows us what life in Nepal is like after the earthquake

Nepali immigrants registerf or TPS at a clinic at highschool in Queens organized by Adhikaar last March. 

Global Politics

With earthquake recovery back home stalled, Nepalis push for renewed protections in the US

Nepal

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