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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This Is the Surprising Reason Child Sexual Abuse Is on the Rise
“Out of the Shadows” urges governments and businesses to use technology to protect children. Read More
Girls & Women
This Organization Just Launched an Illustrated Book Collection to Promote Girls of Color
NABU Publishing is connecting children through storytelling from Haiti to the US. Read More
Girls & Women
Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: An Important Reminder Thousands of Girls Are Trafficked Across the US
Epstein’s alleged victims were vulnerable young girls — like most trafficking victims globally. Read More
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A Record Number of Women Were Just Honored With Australia's Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
“I hope this will inspire even more girls and women to be involved in STEM.” Read more
AdvocacyGirls & WomenGlobal Citizen and London's Vagina Museum Talk Sex Ed, Maternal Health, and Contraception
We asked: Are we denying girls their future? Read more
Australia’s Highest Court Rules Female Genital Mutilation Illegal in All Forms
Around 200 million girls and women globally have undergone some form of FGM. Read more
Pregnant Girls in Sierra Leone Can Now Take Exams — But They Still Can't Attend School
Advocates say the law shames and blames young girls. 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