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India – Coronavirus Fallout: Impact of School Closures on Girls

Amid the many impacts of implementing the world’s biggest lockdown, India’s cohort of adolescents (aged 10-19)—the largest in the world—face unique challenges as schools close across the country. (World Bank Photo) 4/14/2020 - By SHARMISHTHA NANDA At 21-day lockdown in India halted operations for all but essential services—bringing a country with . Learn More

How Data Can Stop Women from Going Hungry

A woman prepares a tray with lentils and cereals at a food distribution center in Tawilla, North Darfur, Sudan. Photo by: Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID / CC BY-NC-ND By Helen Castell // 13 July 2020 LONDON — Good data is key to understanding — and ultimately dismantling — the complex relationships between hunger, inequality, and disempowerment . Learn More

Cameroon & Region – Forced Child Marriages Increase Amidst COVID-19, Poverty, Internal Conflicts

Girls walk to school in the morning in Cameroon. (Ryan Brown/UN Women, Kylee Pedersen/TNH) By Emeline Fonyuy - Cameroon 11 June 2020 - NGAOUNDÉRÉ, Cameroon - Sixteen-year-old Inna won’t be returning to school in Cameroon, even though coronavirus restrictions have eased. During the lockdown, she was married off to a 55-year-old cattle herder. . Learn More

Transforming Counter-Terrorism: From Securitization to Women-Led Peace

June 30, 2020 by Agnieszka Fal Dutra Santos and Mallika Iyer While “violent extremism” escapes an agreed-upon definition, acts recognized as violent extremist by both the international community and local populations continue to pose a threat to international peace and security. Violent extremism conducive to terrorism transcends national borders . Learn More

Women’s Rights Could Be Diminished as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Interview with UN Women Director

The health crisis, and the subsequent widespread lockdowns worldwide, have led to a surge in violence against women. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women warns that women's rights could be diminished as a result of the pandemic. Interview by Laetitia Kaci, UNESCO In March 2020, you warned of an increase in gender inequality due . Learn More

New Zealand Tackles “Period Poverty” With Free Sanitary Products for All Schoolgirls

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says sanitary items are a necessity, not a luxury. Photograph: Gregory_Lee/Getty Images/ By Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin 3 June 2020 - Girls in New Zealand high schools will no longer have to pay for sanitary products after the government announced it would foot the bill in an attempt to stamp out . Learn More

Why Investing in Women Helps Save the Planet

By Leah Rodriguez – April 28, 2020 Education, female empowerment, and climate-smart solutions can stop climate change. Women are more likely to live in poverty, be vulnerable to natural disasters, and experience the direct impacts of flooding and drought. But as activists Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and Vanessa Nakate can attest, they also hold . Learn More

Actions to Bring the Most Marginalized Girls to School After COVID-19

Photo - UNICEF/Frank Dejongh By Robert Jenkins & Rebecca Winthrop May 15, 2020 - The past two decades have been marked by outstanding gains in girls’ education worldwide, with the number of girls out of school dropping by 79 million. We cannot risk rolling back this progress. For some children, the impact of COVID-19 will be temporary. But . Learn More

Human Trafficking & Female Foeticide

April 13, 2020 - Three little girls crowd around a dust-bin in rural Central India. Anyone can tell you from just a glance at them that they are excited at something. In their minds, as it appears, they have found a doll. It doesn’t matter that their much coveted doll is sitting nestled in a pile of rotting garbage: what counts is that the doll is . Learn More

Kenya – Widows & Landlessness

By LEONIDA ODONGO - Kenya March 23, 2020 - Land means different things to different people. To farmers it means a source of food, a source of income and an assurance that their children will go to school, to a real estate agent, land means tenants and a livelihood. To indigenous communities land means life, continuity, a store for natural . Learn More

Afghanistan – Women & Girls with Disabilities Face Systemic Abuse

Barriers, Discrimination in Health Care, Education April 28, 2020 Report “Disability Is Not Weakness” The report, “‘Disability Is Not Weakness’: Discrimination and Barriers Facing Women and Girls with Disabilities in Afghanistan,” details the everyday barriers that Afghan women and girls with disabilities face in one of the world’s poorest . Learn More

We Won’t Get Women Out of Poverty Until We Leave Behind “One-Size-Fits-All” Interventions

Photo – Mexican Girls – ODI By Carmen Leon-Himmelstine Mexican girls walking together. 15 October 2019 - If the world is to live up to its commitment to eradicate extreme poverty for everyone everywhere by 2030, we need gender equality. There is growing recognition of this fact, but interventions are still failing to take into account the . Learn More

Australia – Analysis – The Greatest Human Rights Violation Is the Harm Men Do to Women

Rowan Baxter with Hannah Clarke and their children, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey. Baxter killed them all, but before Hannah died she detailed his crime to police. CREDIT:FACEBOOK By David Leser – February 28, 2020 It is no small task trying to unpack the history of any kind of hatred, especially if that hatred is misogyny. For the past 10 days – . Learn More

Growing Inequality for Women Should Shame the World – UN Chief

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses his statement, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) By Edith M. Lederer February 28, 2020 - UNITED NATIONS . Learn More

Powerful Women Through The Years

Men are prohibited in Tumai, central Kenya. Since 2001, this village has provided refuge for women of the Samburu tribe who have been victims of domestic violence. Photos: Nadia Ferroukhi - Text: Katerina Markelova In 2009, photographer Nadia Ferroukhi was on an assignment in Kenya. As she stepped out of the bus, which had stopped in the middle . Learn More