To the 2020 graduating class of Wolaita Sodo University in Ethiopia — and particularly to Meron, the archaeology and heritage management student whom I met one year ago as part of a UNICEF field visit ...

In 1996, Hirut, a 14-year-old student in rural Ethiopia, runs carefree through the countryside after being commended on her school performance by a teacher. Moments later, she's swept up by a group of ...

What national, regional, and international commitments has Ethiopia made to pretty much combat early marriage? Needs to be the very important question to be widely discussed. Yes, Ethiopia has ...

NAIROBI - Child marriage is on the rise in Ethiopia due to the worst drought in decades, the government and agencies said on Friday, as Oxfam warned of a "full-blown disaster" unless more than $1 ...

Mahdere Paulos—Executive Director, Ethiopian Women Lawyers AssociationIn the next decade, 100 million girls worldwide will be married before they reach age 18. In some parts of Ethiopia nearly half ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Ethiopian government has been ordered to pay $150,000 to a girl who said she was raped, abducted and forced to agree to marriage at the age of 13, in a ...

In 1997, King County, Wash., marriage records show, Hayes married a teenage Ethiopian immigrant 11 years younger than her. Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian file photo Oregon First Lady Cylvia Hayes' third ...