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The Global Girlhood Report 2020: How COVID-19 is putting progress in peril
2020 was supposed to be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for women and girls. The year when governments, businesses, organisations, and individuals came together to develop a five-year plan to accelerate progress for #GenerationEquality. Then COVID-19 s
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Girls on the Move Research Series
The dream of a better future makes millions of girls leave their homes each year. Every girl carries a powerful story- why she migrates, the risks she faces, and the vision of a future she heads toward. It is important that girls' stories are heard. Girls
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The Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
This rapid review focuses on identifying evidence on the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It aims to enable a greater understanding of the unique circumstances of women and girls in the region, which could assi
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Stop the War on Children 2020: Gender matters
The third report of Save the Children's Stop the War on Children campaign reveals shocking trends in the threats to the safety and wellbeing of children living in areas impacted by conflict. While fewer children are living in conflict-affected areas, thos
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Pan-African Girlhood Report 2020: How COVID-19 is putting progress in peril
In Africa, the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (known as ‘the Maputo Protocol’) was adopted on 11 July 2003 to ensure and advance African Women’s Rights. Close to two decades since the adoption, this comprehensive and pro
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Beyond the Shadow Pandemic: Protecting a generation of girls from gender-based violence through COVID-19 to recovery
COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating the existing inequalities that put girls at increased risk of gender-based violence (GBV). This policy brief includes concrete recommendations for UN actors, donors, national governments, humanitarian actors, and the
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Generation Equality for Adolescent Girls: Accelerating progress to end child marriage through the Gender-Based Violence and other Action Coalitions
The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action established a global blueprint for achieving gender equality and was the first international instrument to recognise the unique potential and rights abused faced by the girl child. The Generation Equali
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Violence against Women and Girls in Bangladesh: Barriers to legal recourse and support
Women and girls in Bangladesh are facing increased domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is highlighting pre-existing systemic barriers to legal recourse, protection, and social services. This crisis comes as Bangladesh marks the anniversar
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Because We Matter: Addressing COVID-19 and violence against girls in Asia-Pacific
Asia is home to more than half of the world’s 1.1 billion girls. Gender inequality in many parts of the region means that girls are often systematically disadvantaged and oppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion, and discrimination. Emerging data shows t
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Barriers to Education for Girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo
There is limited literature on the barriers to girls’ education in the DRC. The main findings of the research suggest that cultural history, economic lack, and the coexistence of these are the main factors hindering access to girls’ education. Limited dat
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Gender-based Violence against Women and Girls in Gaza: Protection and inclusion framework
This study looks at gender-based violence (GBV), in particular domestic and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) perpetrated against women from across Gaza. It focuses on the experiences of widowed, abandoned, single, married and remarried women in Gaza and pa
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Women and Girls Safe Spaces: Technical guidance note for COVID-19
Women's and girl's safe spaces provide access to life-saving services, psychosocial support, referrals and information. In many communities, these spaces are trusted structures where women's and girl's physical and emotional safety is respected. However,