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Bearing witness to child marriage and the ‘everyday brutality’ faced by girls around the world
Journalist Stephanie Sinclair has spent years recording the effects of child marriage and other abuses against girls in pictures that are both haunting and inspiring.
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Record number of uprooted children travelling alone need access to education
Unaccompanied refugee and migrant children on the move from violence, abuse and exploitation need better protection, schooling and health services, says a UNICEF report.Â
The long road to early care and education for children of rural Kenya
Parents and teachers living on the outskirts of Garissa County have appealed for schools and health clinics to be built nearer to their remote communities.
“I marvelled at the courage and strength of the girls who are using their stories to inspire change in their communities”
Global Youth Ambassador Fideline Mboringong reflects on a transformative experience when she met an inspiring group of girls and women at the HerStory Summit in New York.
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“Our Promoting Child Education event attracted more than 500 community members and officials”
Supporting girls in rural school areas was a major theme at the event, as Global Youth Ambassador Sylvia Kakyo explains.
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Indian girls who were sexually harassed walking to school call off their hunger strike protest
The girls were upset that no action was being taken to protect them - but action by authorities mean they will no longer have to travel to a neighbouring school.
Struggle to get thousands of children orphaned by Boko Haram into school
Authorities in Nigeria's Borno state are faced with the issue of how to take care of as many as 100,000 children whose parents were killed in the ongoing conflict.
What is a Sherpa and how can they help to guide the world’s children into school?
Shakira is urging the G20 leaders to back a bold education funding plan - and the role of so-called Sherpas could be vital in helping to deliver that.
Lured by promises of education, Ethiopian girls are tricked into trafficking and slavery
Each year more than 20,000 Ethiopian children - some as young as 10 - are sold by their parents, according to a children's charity.
Syrian school children use film-making to escape from life in Lebanese refugee camp
The students who live in a Palestinian camp in Beirut write, direct and act in their own short movies.