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Helping Girls Across Africa Reclaim Their Rights and Own Their Story


African governments failing girls on equality, report finds

“Girls in Africa today are respected and valued far less than boys, and are denied the same life chances. Inequality and discrimination remains ...

Empowering adolescent girls in Africa through education

In West and Central Africa, we aim to increase girls secondary school gross enrollment from the 42% to 57% percent by 2030 and help shift socio- ...

Women, Culture and Africa's Land Reform Agenda - Frontiers

In terms of gender construction, land rights go beyond merely the rights to use or control land as a vital economic asset, but also involve laying claim to ...

30 people defending women's and LGTBQ+ rights around the world

Risking prison time for standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, Clare Byarugaba is one of few openly LGBTQ+ activists in Uganda. She works with civil liberties ...

In Focus: Striving for gender equality | UNICEF Europe and Central ...

We empower girls and women. Lasting change is only possible when all girls and boys and all women and men feel that they have a stake in it and ...

20 Organizations Fighting Female Genital Mutilation

Today, the Foundation is active in raising awareness against this practice worldwide as well as supporting little girls in Africa by directly saving them from ...

Women and Land Rights:

During the struggles against apartheid in South. Africa, Shamim worked as a women's rights, community, media and political activist within community ...

History of Women's Struggle in South Africa

Although the issues that women fought for remained unsolved, the march in 1956 was a victory in its own right. ... African women the right to own, inherit or ...

REALIZING WOMEN'S RIGHTS TO LAND AND OTHER ... - ohchr

adopted by the African Union in 2009, contains a specific section on ... have a right to register property in their own name, rather than solely in.

“I rewrote their story and you can, too”: Black girls' artistic freedom ...

For Black girls, whose histories are often taught in schools through deficit-based narratives, the need to create and reauthor their personal and communal ...

African Solution: How We Fail Women and Girls in Conflict. - Facebook

... their own elections, which an overwhelming number of to took a part ... rights to self determined. as and unconstitutional, There was a ...

'Indigenous' people fight for inclusion | Africa Renewal

Angela Khaminwa, a Nairobi-based expert on social inclusion policies. “Regardless of what label we place on ethnic communities that maintain traditional ...

The Erasure Of Black Women's Contributions: From Past To Present

This article is more than 3 years old. Close up of serious African woman. Black women are no strangers to the co- ...

The Danger of a Single Story | Facing History & Ourselves

But the unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was ...

South Africa still hasn't won LGBTQ+ equality. Here are 5 reasons why

In the fight for LGBTQ+ rights on the African continent, South Africa leads the way for marriage equality and legal protection against ...

Taliban Restrictions on Women's Rights Deepen Afghanistan's Crisis

The Taliban have barred women from universities and many workplaces, compelling several aid organisations to pause operations in Afghanistan.

Apartheid: Definition & South Africa | HISTORY

Apartheid, the legal and cultural segregation of the non‑white citizens of South Africa, ended in 1994 thanks to activist Nelson Mandela and ...

GirlTrek: Home

We're a global movement of Black women leveraging the historic legacy of walking and the power of self-care as a pathway to heal and transform our lives.

Stories | International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Stories from West Africa · Meet two entrepreneur mothers from Nigeria reclaiming power through their passion for knitting · This IRC Cameroon staff member is ...

Vital Partners, Shared Priorities: The Biden Administration's Sub ...

This inalienable right depends on a system of rules and principles which Africans have helped forge over decades through their leadership in ...