Ethiopian Early Marriage Project
In the Amhara region of Ethiopia where Yideneku lives, rates of child marriage are among the highest in the world. Half of all girls in this region are married before their 15th birthday.

Adult Education Offers Options to Iranian Women
In spite of rich oil resources, this area bordering Iraq is one of the poorest and least developed provinces in Iran. Its inhabitants earn far less than the national average of about $400 per person and unemployment is high.

Global Initiative to End Early Marriage
More than two thirds of adolescent girls are married in Bangladesh, Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and more than half in Afghanistan, India and Nigeria. In six West African countries, about 44 percent of women marry before the age of 15. Globally, more than 100 million girls are expected to marry in the next decade