Luchanik

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Davinder is the author of “Forced to Marry Him: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It? I still love travel however.

I started off sharing about travel, but I'm no longer in the travel business. I have now changed the focus of my page to sharing about human rights abuses. We all have to create awareness, and be the change we wish to see. I'm now the award winning author of "Forced to Marry Him: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It"

14/11/2025

Please join the movement to ban child marriage in California! Write to Governor Newsom asking for his support in raising the marriage age to .

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Still thinking about yesterday’s amazing panel discussion featuring of Unchained At Last and Chelsea Clinton. The topic was ending and specifically here in .

Unbelievably, has no minimum marriage age so even someone who is 0 years old could be married here in California and it wouldn’t be illegal. This is scary and shocking, and also extremely unacceptable. Organizations such as and in the way of raising the marriage age to 18 last year in CA when we got really close. Just because they had reservations about helping to protect our most vulnerable-kids- from these human rights abuses, Assemblyman Ash Kalra would not allow the Bill AB2924 to even be considered for a vote which if successful, this could have changed the law in CA, allowing the marriage age to be raised to .

Both Fraidy and Chelsea made a great argument for why child marriage is so wrong. We all have to be onboard for getting behind the movement to support a ban on child marrisge here in our own state of CA. 16 other states have banned child marriage. Why haven’t we? Let’s be the leader in this, it’s just common sense. Please write to Governor Newsom asking him to do something about this quickly! This is really an urgent matter. Thank you for your help.

Let's get Gov. Newsom to ban child marriage in California
California still has NO MINIMUM AGE for marriage, leaving millions of girls vulnerable to child marriage. Gov. Gavin Newsom can fix this. Take a minute right now to urge him to be a champion for girls and ban child marriage.
actionnetwork.org

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/lets-get-gov-newsom-to-ban-child-marriage-in-california/?source=email&

27/08/2025

I’m so excited to be a TedX speaker. I will be talking about my story and how harmful child marriage and forced marriage are. Please join us this Saturday at the Rancho Bernardo Library at 10 am. Please register for the event at this link: https://forms.gle/oG2zP72FE36qowDp7

Another victory: Oregon banned child marriage! - Unchained At Last 30/05/2025

There’s progress in terms of child marriage in this country. Oregon just raised the marriage age to 18 just yesterday. It’s a very hopeful sign for California where child marriage is still allowed unfortunately. Recently, Maine also raised the marriage age to 18 -just earlier this month and Washington, DC did the same very recently! This can all be attributed to the great work that Unchained At Last does. I’m so proud of the tireless work they do to help kids in this country. Let kids be kids. then marriage!

https://www.unchainedatlast.org/another-victory-oregon-banned-child-marriage/ #:~:text=Once%20again%20we%20are%20doing,third%20legislative%20victory%20this%20year.

Another victory: Oregon banned child marriage! - Unchained At Last Once again we are doing a wild victory dance: Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek just signed the bill we helped to write, introduce and promote to ban all marriage before age 18, no exceptions. !!! Yes, this is our third legislative victory this year. And yes, we are now 15 states, one district and two territor...

Forced Marriage & Family's Choices Nearly Cost Her Life 12/02/2025

My story was just posted to YouTube by Unfiltered Stories. Please watch it. We all have to take a part in ending and .

Forced Marriage & Family's Choices Nearly Cost Her Life Forced into marriage as a teenager, Davinder Kaur was treated as a bargaining chip, used to secure British citizenship for a man she had never met. Growing u...

05/02/2025

My story was posted to Unfiltered Stories and I just found out today. It was released on January 17th, and I can’t even begin to read all the comments. I am grateful for all those who feel empathy for what I went through. So many girls go through the same pain and this is why I had to share my story -to spread awareness and hopefully forced marriages will all come to an end. 🙏🏽

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=624482353476814&id=100077451648882&mibextid=wwXIfr

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