Brides do Good

"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 🌎♻️ telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/…

On #IWD2020, retweet if you really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want gender equality.

Love this way of networking - @ChangePlease make a #SocialEnterpriseShoutOut every week 👏

👆 from statements by @Larissa_Ken @YouthForChange, @SarahChampionMP, @ikwro and the incredible @PayzeeMalika

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.

👆 from inspirational and incisive statements by @SarahChampionMP, @Pauline_Latham, @2Faeeza @MuslimWomenUK, @hrw

A key takeaway from #LTVpanel: This is not about our faiths. It’s about our rights: the right to choose, and to say no. change.org/BanChildMarria…

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

‘It is achievable... do whatever you can, wherever you are.’ @ChantalKhoueiry wraps up the panel #LTVpanel

‘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

‘The right to bodily autonomy is separate to the issue of coercion. We have to deal with them in separate ways.’ @larissa_ken #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

‘This campaign is not being done to young people but with them.’ @Larissa_Ken #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