Girls & Women
Girls and women are essential to building healthier, better-educated and sustainable communities. Women and girls are too often afflicted with some of the harshest aspects of poverty. Instead of victims, women and girls can be powerful community leaders.
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Girls & Women
World Leaders Are About to Double Down on Gender Equality and Reproductive Health
Here’s what you need to know about the International Conference on Population and Development. Read More
Girls & Women
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Scarlett Curtis Were Just Honored for Fighting Gender Inequality With Their Words
Equality Now recognized Adichie's and Curtis’ work in feminist spaces with a night of empowerment. Read More
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This Woman Is Fighting for Gender Equality at the Forefront of Lebanon's Uprising
Activists want an end to discriminatory laws in the wake of economic turmoil. Read More
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'When You Shine, the Whole World Is Illuminated,' Melinda Gates Tells Johannesburg Audience
Gates joined journalist Redi Tlhabi to talk gender equality and her book "The Moment of Lift." Read more
Nepal Will Give Cash Rewards to Women Who Refuse Deadly 'Menstrual Huts'
The payment aims to break customs where women are banished to huts while on their periods. Read more
More Than 600 Pakistani Girls Sold as Brides to China
“No one is doing anything to help these girls.” Read more
This Ugandan Filmmaker is Using Art to Inspire Real Life Action Against Gender-Based Violence
Her work tackles everything from HIV stigma, to breaking the silence around sexual violence. Read more
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Girls & Women
Girls and women are essential to building healthier, better-educated and sustainable communities. Women and girls are too often afflicted with ... Read more
Health
Healthy people are able to live fuller, happier lives. They are able to pull themselves out of extreme poverty. For ... Read more
Education
The world has cut the number of children without an education in half. This progress must extend to the over ... Read more
Finance & Innovation
Ending extreme poverty needs innovative ideas, good governance and sustainable financing. Funding global development needs inspiration from every part of ... Read more
Food & Hunger
Well-fed people create stable communities, perform better in school and take advantage of the opportunities to end extreme poverty. The ... Read more
Water & Sanitation
Clean water, a place to “poo” and waste systems are not too much to ask. Over a billion people suffer ... Read more
Environment
A healthy planet takes care of its people. Healthy people take care of the planet. Protecting the earth promotes the ... Read more
Citizenship
The world needs active global citizens who are engaged in the world, knowledgeable about its diversity and passionate about change. ... Read more