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Seven Nepali Women Climb Mount Kilimanjaro for Girls’ Education

Seven young Nepali women have taken on the challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to promote education for girls, along with women’s rights. These women are trying to climb all seven of the world’s highest mountains, h...
by Sera Yoo
 
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Ensuring Access to Education for Indigenous Young Women: The Sacred Valley Project

The Sacred Valley Project (SVP) was established in 2009 to provide educational support services for young women from low-income, rural and hard-to-reach regions of the Andes by facilitating access to secondary education. In the...
by Ling Shu
 
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Philippine Bill Funds Contraceptives and Sex Education

Last Monday, Philippine legislators passed a landmark bill that would provide free contraceptives and family planning advice at government health centers, and access to sex education classes in schools. The decision comes after...
by Alice Formwalt
 
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Women Agricultural Scientists in Africa Face a Tough Cultural Choice

In Africa, although women make up the vast majority of the farming workforce, leaders in Africa’s agricultural sector are mostly men. Beating gender inequality in agriculture means, more often than not, that women agricul...
by Ling Shu
 
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Pregnant High School Students Expelled in Liberia

At St. Mark Lutheran High School, becoming pregnant is a violation of the school handbook. Five girls discovered this rule when they were expelled from the school after the principal learned of their pregnancies. In response to...
by Amanda Bragg
 
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In Rural Pakistan, a Struggle to Rebuild and Expand Girls’ Education

According to news reports and non-profit collaborative Panos, schools are making a recovery in Pakistan’s Swat Valley near the Afghan-Pakistan border, where Taliban attacks destroyed more than 400 of the region’s 1,...
by Lauren Riggs
 
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Girls Provide Hope For the Millennium in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

 In Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, girls who used to be last in class are gaining knowledge, skills, and self-assurance in a program called “Fille-espoir du millénaire,” which translates as “Girls: Hope for th...
by Susie Hufford
 
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Gender Equality Initiatives in Bangladesh Tip the Scales

Two decades in motions to increase opportunities for girls in primary education has brought Bangladesh’s education system beyond gender equality to an over-representation of girls in primary schools. The Gender Parity In...
by Amanda Bragg
 
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In Uganda, Women’s Education Still Working Towards Improvement

President Museveni promised in 2010 that Uganda would meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 3, aimed at promoting gender equality and empowering women, by improving women’s access to education at all levels ...
by Susie Hufford
 
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