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HerRights is a 501c3 nonprofit committed to ending gender violence and facilitating social justice locally and globally.
Why Won’t the U.S. Stop Child Marriage?

A majority of Americans assume #childmarriage is illegal in the U.S. but in fact, it's prevalent here and LEGAL IN 34 STATES. Lack of a strong legal framework to prevent it in the U.S. contributes to its prevalence.

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November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The LeadHerShip Initiative (TLI) helps school age girls connect to leadership skills, motivation, knowledge and mentorship.
Thanks to @HerRightsGlobal partners and board for their tireless contributions and to @azschoolforarts for our start! #womenleaders #womenempowerment #genderequality #girlboss
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"How do you describe something that feels like the slow suffocation of your people?

Perhaps one way is that in Afghanistan, the #Taliban has criminalized womanhood itself. #womensrightsarehumanrights #AfghanWomen

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After 4 Years of Taliban Rule, The U.S. Must Take Steps to Be in Solidarity with the Women of Afghanistan
After four years of Taliban control, the Security Council is meeting on Afghanistan, and there is still no clear U.S. policy.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The data is in. Children of working mothers thrive! A Harvard led study across 24 countries found that daughters of working moms are 29% more likely to hold leadership roles + earn more. #HerRightsareHumanRights #genderequity #WomensRights www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/having-working-mother.aspx
August 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Current access to reproductive health resources across the US as of July 2025: nearly 40% of the population is still without access to fundamental health services. The fight is not over.

Sources: Center for Reproductive Rights; Guttmacher Institute; KFF; UCLA Law.
August 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Proud to share that our Founder and Board
Chair has been selected as a 2025 @takeleadwomen Power Tool Champion (Power Tool #6 - The Truth Seeker), an acknowledgment of her hard work developing and supporting programs that elevate women and girls. #genderequity #Leadership
August 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Great day yesterday at the TLI Booth at SCC's Spirit of Hope Summer Community Event. We were so excited to socialize The LeaderHerShip Initiative through @HerRightsglobal, meet new partners, and collect applications from future TLI grads! #leadership #girlsarethefuture
July 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From Mexico

Feminist activism plays a long game; gains are sown not over years, but decades. "You have to stay in the fight, even when it seems hard." Women in Mexico found a way to work across political party lines. Can we? #genderequality
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'Feminist Activism Plays a Long Game': Jennifer M. Piscopo on the Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from Mexico
The professor and researcher has watched gender quotas transform the political landscape in Mexico over the last two decades. Here's what she thinks feminists in the U.S. can learn from their example....
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July 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
More than 500 Black feminists will convene in New Orleans from June 5 through 7 for what organizers are calling the largest Black feminist gathering in the U.S.

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#womensrightsarehumanrights #genderequality #bipocvoices #intersectionalfeminism
June 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Article from HerRights founder, Dr. Tanushree (Tanu) Ghosh, @thoughtsrightsnimages) encapsulating the state of the union under the current Administration, and explaining why those in other nations should take note.
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The United States, Autocracy and the World
Where do we go from here – as a race?
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May 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This month, HerRights held a workshopping & networking event focused on strategic solutions for gender equality. If you’d like to weigh in on the topics we explored, read this UN Report: t2m.io/AZ487bgk - find us at www.herrights.org

#GenderEquality #WomansRightsareHumanRights #GiveGirlsaChance
May 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Islamist org rallies in Bangladesh to protest govt reforms that support gender equality and women’s rights. The protesters claim that “men and women can never be equal." www.hrw.org/news/2025/05... #womensrightsarehumanrights #globalfightforgenderequality #genderequality
Bangladeshi Women’s Rights Opposed by Hardline Religious Groups
On Saturday, nearly 20,000 supporters of the Islamist organization Hefazat-e-Islam rallied in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to protest, among other issues, proposed government reforms to...
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May 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
HerRights in conversation on the risk of teenage pregnancy with Sophia Yen, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Pandia Health, and specialist reproductive health. youtu.be/iOPCzidn0J4?...
#reprorights #womenshealth #genderrights #womensrights #genderequity
Dr. Sophia Yen on Teenage Pregnancy
YouTube video by HerRights Global
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April 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
While other countries sound the alarm on femicide, the U.S. continues to ignore its own deadly epidemic of gender-based violence.

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#genderequality #genderviolence #femicide #womensrightsarehumanrights
Thousands of U.S. Women Are Killed Each Year. Where’s the Outrage?
A spate of 11 femicides in Italy so far this year is making global headlines and prompting calls for “cultural rebellion.”  Yet femicide is far worse in the U.S., claiming thousands of lives a year, a...
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April 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
HerRights Founder Tanu Ghosh sits in with Angela Ghayour, Afghan educator and advocate for women's rights, who shares her passion for girls' education at a risk to her life.
#WomansRightsareHumanRights
#GenderEquality

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On women and education: Angela Ghayour speaks with HerRights founder Tanu Ghosh March 2025
YouTube video by HerRights Global
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April 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Women Leaders of Excellence

It's #WomensHistoryMonth and we are sharing posts that highlight women who have changed the world.

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#womensrights #genderequity #womensrightsarehumanrights #womenleaders
Celebrating 12 U.S. and Montenegrin Women Leaders Who Demonstrated Excellence
March is Women’s History Month in the USA, a time to recognize the significant contributions of women who have left a lasting impact on society. In honor
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March 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Thousands attend women’s rights march in Brussels this month

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#womensrights #genderequity #womensrightsarehumanrights #womenshealth #resist
Thousands attend women's rights march in Brussels
YouTube video by AP Archive
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March 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Child marriage is a profound manifestation of inequality & gender-based violence. Did you know only 13 U.S. states have banned child marriage? Around the world, millions of girls are impacted. Join us in calling for global action to end this human rights violation. www.herrights.org/projects#:~:...
January 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The current administration pulled the plug on reproductiverights.gov, removing info on access to care, insurance, birth control, abortion care, breast & cervical cancer screenings, prenatal care, and HIV screenings.
#WomensHealth #GenderRights #ReproductiveHealthcare
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US government website offering resources on abortion, reproductive rights goes offline
Reproductiverights.gov, which was launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2022, was offline Tuesday morning.
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January 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Unpaid care and domestic work should be a shared responsibility.

Yet globally, women spend over 2.5 times more hours per day on unpaid care work than men.

Let’s #sharethecare at home.

From @UN_Women

Learn more: unwo.men/Lhyo50UJxJF
January 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Are Women’s Rights the Canary in the Coal Mine of a Democracy in Decline?

POV: U.S. democracy has been failing women, as it has been designed to, since the nation’s founding.

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#womensrightsarehumanrights #womenandgirls #GenderEquity #TheFightContinues
Are Women's Rights the Canary in the Coal Mine of a Democracy in Decline? - Ms. Magazine
Reproductive rights, women's rights, voting rights and abortion access are on the decline—but the are essential to a healthy U.S. democracy.
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January 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trends of de-democratization are eroding gender equality & threats to previous policy achievements. This paper discusses backsliding on gender policies, and the emerging political space for response. Where are we and what can we do to help? #genderequity

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January 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
HerRights is ramping up to focus on BlueSky more heavily pending the closure of TikTok. Stay tuned and tell a friend!
January 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM