In texts received in Spanish and translated to English, the girl tried to describe her location, though she did not know where she was Maya Yang Authorities rescued a 17-year old girl after she was trafficked to Ventura county, California, from … Continue reading Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked to California from Mexico
By Tyson Conteh & Tamasin Ford, BBC Africa Eye, Makeni & London Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio took the bold step of declaring a national emergency over rape and sexual violence in 2019. Five years on, BBC Africa Eye … Continue reading Sierra Leone sexual violence: What difference did the national emergency make?
Human Rights Watch warns bar on women means unqualified men now teach boys, fewer subjects are taught and beatings are routine By Kaamil Ahmed The Taliban is causing “irreversible damage” to Afghanistan’s education system through the reintroduction of corporal punishment, curriculum changes and the use of unqualified teachers to replace women, most of whom have been barred from schools, Human Rights Watch has warned. After taking power in 2021, the Taliban banned girls from secondary schools. A new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW), published on Wednesday, warns that boys’ education has also suffered under the Taliban, although this has gone largely unreported. HRW said the ban on … Continue reading Taliban causing ‘irreversible damage’ to whole education system in Afghanistan
From the start, women were at the center of the demonstrations that swept Iran last year. Schoolgirls emerged as an unexpected source of defiant energy. By Azadeh Moaveni One morning this past winter, the students at a girls’ high school in … Continue reading The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools
By Murad Shishani & Nick Sturdee | BBC Arabic At least 400 women are in the second week of a hunger strike in a high-security prison in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, the BBC has learned. They are in prison for being … Continue reading Islamic State: Hundreds of women on hunger strike at Iraqi prison
By Scottie Andrew, CNN | 12 jan. 2023 The Canadian equivalent of the Girl Scouts is dropping the name “Brownie,” the membership branch of some of its youngest scouts, after current and former scouts raised concern that it could harm Black members and girls of color. Now, 7- and 8-year-old members of the Girl Guides of Canada will be called Embers, a name chosen with the help of current scouts and adult alumni. Other scouting organizations, including Girl Scouts of the USA, still use the name Brownies, but the origin of the word itself is less important than the way it made girls feel, Girl Guides of Canada CEO Jill … Continue reading Girl Guides of Canada rename ‘Brownies’ to be more inclusive
By Sophie Tanno, CNN | 23 Dec. 2022 CNN—When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 in a lightning takeover following the withdrawal of US troops, the radical Islamist group appeared keen to distance itself from its earlier period of rule in the 1990s, presenting itself as more moderate and committed to the internal peace process. Among its new commitments, the Taliban pledged to honor women’s rights within the norms of “Islamic law.” The group’s spokesman Suhail Shaheen said at the time that women would be allowed to continue their education up to university – a break from the strict restrictions under the Taliban regime that ruled between … Continue reading The Taliban pledged to honor women’s rights in Afghanistan. Here’s how it eroded them instead
EFE | Bogotá – 18 octubre, 2022 Colombia figura en el puesto 20 de la lista de países del mundo con más niñas casadas o en uniones forzosas antes de cumplir los 15 años, y el número 11 de América Latina y el Caribe, según ha denunciado Unicef. En el marco del Día Internacional de la Niña, que se conmemora cada 11 de octubre, esta agencia de la ONU ha presentado el «Análisis de situación de los matrimonios infantiles y las uniones tempranas en Colombia 2010-2020» donde se recopila que, según el Censo Nacional, para 2018 más de 340.000 niñas y adolescentes (el 8,6 % del total) estaban casadas o … Continue reading Los matrimonios infantiles forzosos están «normalizados» en Colombia, dice Unicef
Experts warn that girls’ education will be worst hit, as many families are forced to move away from schools Global education | 22 Sep. 2022 More than 3.5 million children are at risk of dropping out of school due to the drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has said, amid warnings the crisis could lead to “a lost generation” that misses out on education. According to new figures shared with the Guardian, Unicef now estimates that 3.6 million children in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are in danger of leaving school as a result of the cumulative pressure on households caused by the unrelenting drought. In a sign of … Continue reading Horn of Africa drought puts 3.6m children at risk of dropping out of school
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