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Lebanon – Profile of Young Woman & Forced Marriage

Lebanon - The Chief’s Daughter – Profile of a Young Woman & Forced Marriage SB OverSeas is a humanitarian organisation working in Lebanon to provide access to education. They are strictly against the practice of child marriage which affects many of the girls in our schools and work to keep them in education. Read more about our work here: . Learn More

Kenya – How Outlawing FGM in Kenya Has Driven It Underground & Led to Its Medicalization

Damaris Seleina Parsitau*- June 19, 2018 The fight against female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been fraught with both success and failure, resistance and acceptance. Since Kenya banned the practice in 2011, FGM/C is now increasingly conducted underground, secretly in homes or in clinics by healthcare providers and workers. The . Learn More

Lebanon – Profile of Young Woman & Forced Marriage

SB OverSeas is a humanitarian organisation working in Lebanon to provide access to education. They are strictly against the practice of child marriage which affects many of the girls in our schools and work to keep them in education. Read more about our work here: www.sboverseas.org Written by Kevin Charbel, Project Manager in Saida, Lebanon SB . Learn More

Kenya – How Outlawing FGM in Kenya Has Driven It Underground & Led to Its Medicalization

What Is a Refugee? Refugee Women & Girls

https://www.savethechildren.org/us/what-we-do/emergency-response/refugee-children-crisis/what-is-refugee?smtrctid=AAEMh8&cid=Email::Emer_Refugee:Mass:061618 What is a Refugee? 5 Things People Often Don’t Know The word refugee come from the word refuge – “the state of being sheltered from pursuit, danger or difficulty”1. Refugees are . Learn More

EU – Promoting Gender Equality in Mental Health & Clinical Research – FEMM Committee – Motion for a European Parliament Resolution

European Parliament FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION on Promoting Gender Equality in Mental Health and Clinical Research (2016/2096(INI)) The European Parliament, – having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the . Learn More

Everywoman Everywhere – Campaign for a Global Treaty to End Violence Against Girls & Women

Welcome to Everywoman Everywhere, the campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. Join us. Here's How We Can End The Violence One of the questions we’re asked most often is how a treaty addressing violence against women and girls can actually prevent violence. Good question. Violence prevention . Learn More

Indonesia – Myths Fuel Malnutrition of Adolescent Girls

A woman picks up fruit at a vegetable market in Jakarta, Indonesia. REUTERS/Beawiharta "Adolescent girls don't know what healthy looks like, as health is understood as the absence of illness" By Emma Batha | Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON, June 11, 2018 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From fears that eating chicken wings makes it hard to . Learn More

UN Human Rights Council, Session 38 – Agenda & Issues that Can Potentially Have Global Impact

This is a valuable reference document whether or not you go to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Council reviews policies and makes policies, that can affect human rights, including for women and girls. The Resolutions passed by the Human Rights Council then go to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, and thus have High Level . Learn More

India – Youth Education Project Tackle’s Gender Discrimination & Stereotypes

India - Combating Sex Bias Against Girls by Changing the Minds of Youths In an after-school program in Haryana state in India, children are being taught to challenge gender stereotypes with positive effect. The state has the worst child-sex ratio in the nation. BREAKTHROUGH INDIA By Ariel Sophia Bardi – Februaru 26, 2018 HARYANA, India — In . Learn More

Climate Change “Impacts Women More Than Men”- Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Displacement

Photo Credit: Woman and child in the Jowle camp for the displaced camp in Garowe, Somalia,, Courtesy of EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, Photo by Agata Grzybowska. April 3, 2018 By Saiyara Khan “It is often expected that women care more, and therefore women are going to volunteer, and be the saviors” in times of crisis, . Learn More

Ways that Digital Is Transforming Charities – Consider for Women’s Programs

Keith Breene - April 5, 2017 “If you think that change is difficult, try irrelevance.” This is the stark warning for charities from Karl Wilding of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations – the non-profit sector must embrace the challenges and opportunities being created by digital technology. Wilding was opening the latest Tata . Learn More

Bulgaria – Promotion of Gender Equality Has Become a Contentious Issue, Especially for Political Leaders & Other Influential Public Figures

EFE/Vassil Donev Fighting the Backlash Against Feminism in Bulgaria May 2, 2018 - In Bulgaria, feminism has become a divisive word. In its communist past, Bulgaria had attitudes and policies that were quite open to women’s rights, but in recent years, despite membership in the European Union, the context has shifted. Today, there is . Learn More

Statelessness Around the World – Stateless Women & Children – UN Special Rapporteur Questionnaire on Minority Rights Questionnaire on Statelessness

UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues – Website: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Minorities/SRMinorities/Pages/SRminorityissuesIndex.aspx Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues to the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly: Questionnaire on the issue of statelessness, its root causes and specific conditions or . Learn More

Guatemala – Indigenous Women Abused by the Military at Last Get Justice in Court – Convictions & Reparations

Women look on during the trial in Guatemala’s High-Risk Court in February 2016. Photo: Cristina Chiquin October 22, 2917 - Demecia Yat de Xol was just 28 years old when she was forced into sexual slavery in the small village of Sepur Zarco by the Guatemalan military. On 26 February 2016, at age 61, Doña Demecia sat in Guatemala’s High-Risk Court, . Learn More

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