"Increasingly, brides are shopping for #sustainable gowns, whether sourcing a second-hand or vintage dress from sellers like @BridesDoGood or Oxfam - which has a tremendous selection on its site." Find your planet-friendly dress👉@OxfamOnlineShop 🌎♻️
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Our #SocialEnterpriseShoutOut is @BridesDoGood. Brides do Good is a wedding dress shop, created by women, where up to two thirds of the proceeds go towards supporting humanitarian programmes that empower and educate girls at risk of child marriage.
One key takeaway from #LTVpanel:
We are up against the view that getting married and having a baby are mutually inclusive - that if women’s bodies can do one they should do the other.
We cannot have a law that silently supports this.
An amazing morning with the women and girls in spaces of power working to #EndChildMarraige! 👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿
"...children should be children, to play, to aspire and achieve their dreams. Not to be someone's wife." -@PayzeeMalika
@IKWRO@GirlsNotBrides@KNFMHBV@IygYemen
This morning we joined a brilliant coalition of organisations in Parliament to pledge our support to end Child Marriage in England and Wales. We stand determined to end Gender Based Violence within a generation. #LTVpanel
An honour to listen to the incredible @payzeemalika share her story of child marriage. We cannot expect children to call out parental coercion - we need to end #childmarriage in the UK @IKWRO @KNFMHBV @childnotbride #LTVpanel
I heard some incredibly powerful testimony from @PayzeeMalika and other inspiring speakers about child marriage. This has to stop and I would encourage everyone to write to their MPs about it. @SarahChampionMP and I will continue to campaign in Parliament. @BridesDoGood@IKWRO
‘Please write to your MP, but do not write an identikit letter or email - we get so many thousands in a week... Write your own!’ @pauline_latham’s advice #LTVpanel
‘It is only the number of registered child marriages that is going down - the number of unregistered child marriages is not going down.’ @ikwro#LTVpanel
Moving to questions from the floor: ‘what’s the plan?’ asks @2faeeza@MuslimWomenUK and @ikwro answers that sharing info & data and working together is essential to changing legislation #LTVpanel
‘We’ve seen how much the law has changed the situation with FGM... Having the message there in black and white will change how people see child marriage.’ @payzeemalika #LTVpanel
‘Not just lovebirds’ @pauline_latham speaks about explaining who child marriage really affects child marriage to parliamentary decision makers #LTVpanel