Helping Girls Across Africa Reclaim Their Rights and Own Their Story

‎ By providing a platform for young people in Africa to share their stories of resilience, the lessons they've learned, and the accomplishments ...

United to Beat Malaria on LinkedIn: Helping Girls Across Africa ...

Helping Girls Across Africa Reclaim Their Rights and Own Their Story ... a vital role in the fight against the epidemic. ... in their diversity, recognise their ...

Malala Yousafzai: Malala Day Speech at UN House Nigeria

In the years following that first speech, I spent my birthday traveling to meet girls around the world — refugees in Jordan, Iraq, Kenya and ...

About - The Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom

Launched in 2018, the Girl Child & Her Long Walk to Freedom is a joint project of the Imago Dei Fund and the Institute for Faith and Gender Empowerment.

Empowered women build a safer community in South Africa

... based organization, is running a three-year project to empower and support survivors of violence against women and help them reclaim their

West African Project Helps Women Farmers Claim Their Rights, Land

This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women's rights movement in West Africa, We Are the Solution. Sonko, ...

CREAWKENYA - Power.Voice.Agency

Founded in 1999, the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAWKenya) is a national feminist women'sright Non-Governmental Organization.

Women struggle to secure land rights | Africa Renewal

Kures's plight is a common one in Africa, although she was more fortunate than most other women. Many never regain access or rights to matrimonial land lost ...

Walking the Talk: Truth Behind Institutions Claiming to Help Girls ...

MY 2018 TRIP TO THE UN FOR THE GIRL CHILD ... In 2018, at the age of 15, I was one of two Ugandan delegates chosen through Plan International to participate in a ...

Grass-roots women leaders create change across Africa

When she was 26, Ochieng founded the Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre in Kibera, an organization supporting survivors of sexual and ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED Talk

could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story of ...

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- ...

Four Ways to Support Girls' Access to Education in Afghanistan

Donors looking to support girls' education, and education and the rights of women and girls more broadly, will need to press for effective ...

UNICEF Helps Children Freed by Armed Groups Reclaim Their Lives

... a militia group and the road to recovery, in their own words. ... Sophie, 16, Central African Republic: "There were several of us girls. ... Stories of UNICEF in ...

Traditional dance in the Dominican Republic is helping girls reclaim ...

For the Afro-Descendent girls of Los Mercedes today, this trauma remains profound. “[Black communities] are the losers in the story of the ...

African women: asserting their rights | Africa Renewal

In recent decades — thanks in great measure to their own organization and energetic efforts — they have made important strides. As Africa shakes off its ...

Empowering Nigerian women with disabilities to claim their sexual ...

... claim their sexual and reproductive rights and training healthcare providers in specific needs. ... rights of women and girls with disabilities in the four states ...

Stand for Her Land Campaign: Home

UN Economic Commission for Africa — S4HL Tanzania participated in a high-level policy dialogue in Dar es Salaam focused on strengthening land administration and ...

Melinda French Gates highlights five women inspiring change in ...

Through Tostan, Binta learned that she had rights as a human being and as a woman. What's more, she learned that her rights had been violated— ...

Ending Child Marriage in Africa | Human Rights Watch

Develop retention strategies and life skills programs for married girls through targeted outreach and support programs, initiating evening or ...