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Girl Rising: The New Power of the World’s Young Women
The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, has been blogging for the Huffington Post from the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he has been working to put global education at the top...
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Swaziland Bans Child Marriage
Congratulations Swaziland, for your courage in banning a tradition that has been in your culture for centuries. Now the real challenge begins… enforcing the law. The marriage of an adult man to an...
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88 Villages In India Bans Child Marriage
On September 2010, UNICEF and local not-for-profit agencies in Yavatmal India launched the Child Rights and Child Protection movement. Their campaign prompted 88 villages to abandon child marriage,...
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Court Orders Public Flogging For 15-Year-Old Rape Victim
Last year a 15-year-old girl from one of the islands in the Maldives was arrested and sentenced to 8 months house arrest and 100 lashes by the Maldives justice system. Map edited by Gillian Felix....
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Afghanistan’s First Female Mayor – Part II
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Kenya Elects First Maasai Woman to Parliament
Peris Tobiko, first maasai woman elected to Parliament On March 4, 2013 Kenya elected the first Maasai woman to parliament. Peris Pesi Tobiko, a 42-year-old mother of four was elected as a member of...
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Girls Should Be Students Not Brides
Dear friends, Did you know that child brides are twice less likely to attend school than girls who avoid early marriage? Girls who marry as children are denied their right to education and are deprived...
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Women’s Right To Property in Mongolia
Women’s right to property in Mongolia is a crucial part of growing an economy and a country. In Mongolia women now hold approximately 40 percent of land titles, an increase of 5 per cent since 2011....
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Afghan Women’s Political Power Revoked
Women’s rights in Afghanistan take yet another hit, as conservative male parliamentarians secretly remove a legal requirement that states women make up at least a quarter of all provincial elections....
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10-Year-Old Girl Saved from Marriage
HERAT, Afghanistan, 30 July 2013 – When Farzana* was 10 years old, her father, a farmer and laborer in a small village in western Afghanistan, arranged for her to marry a man 40 years her senior. The...
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