#AfghanGirlsVoices comes precisely two years after the de facto Taliban authorities seized control in Afghanistan and will continue until September 18, which marks the start of their official ban on school for adolescent girls. Voices and visuals The campaign was developed in collaboration with ECW Global Champion Somaya Faruqi, former captain of the Afghan Girls’…
The Pakistani education advocate – who was shot by the Taliban for her activism – was speaking exactly 10 years after her landmark ‘Malala Day’ address to youth at UN Headquarters in New York, where she called for global action against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism. Passionate message UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed introduced Malala, saying…
“The scourge of racism continues for Black women and girls in the Americas, many of whom are descendants of the victims of enslavement,” Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), said in a news release. “Too often, Afrodescendent women and girls are abused and mistreated, their needs are not taken seriously, and…
The study provides the first in-depth analysis of gender inequalities in drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in households, revealing that women and girls bear the brunt of the global water and sanitation crisis. Billions lack access Globally, 2.2 billion people still do not have safely managed drinking water at home, and some 3.4 billion…
London: Eating problems and self-harm have increased among teenage girls over the past three years, a new study has found. According to research, girls aged 13 to 16 years are 42 percent more likely than in March 2020 to have bulimia and anorexia are more affected. While in the same period, there has been a…
UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working. “We will not put our national staff in danger and therefore we are asking them not to report to the office”…
Since the start of the year, abortion has been banned in 14 states across the country, and the consequences of the Supreme Court decision has reverberated throughout the entire legal and policy system, the Human Rights Council-appointed experts said. “The regressive position taken by the US Supreme Court…by essentially dismantling 50 years of precedent protecting…
“Allegations of grave cases of sexual violence against civilians, including children, in particular affecting IDPs fleeing conflict in the eastern DRC, is a matter of profound concern which requires immediate action,” said the top UN official who advocates for women and girls impacted by sexual violence. The representative spoke of how she was “deeply troubled”…
File photo A 4-year-old girl died of suffocation at a local amusement park in Ukraine due to the negligence of the staff. According to foreign media reports, a 4-year-old girl allegedly died of suffocation in a bouncy castle set up in a local amusement park in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. According to media reports, the 4-year-old girl…
The Abu Dhabi Family Court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced a young man who hacked a girl’s social media accounts. According to Arab media, the Abu Dhabi Family Court in the UAE fined the young man who hacked the girl’s social media accounts and not only fined the victim 2,000 dirhams as a…
