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Women's and girls' rights
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Weapon of War: Sexual violence against children in conflict
Globally, 426 million children live in conflict zones today. We estimate that a staggering 72 million of them, or one in six, live 50 kilometres or closer to conflicts where armed groups or forces have perpetrated sexual violence against children during t
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Let Girls Learn! West and Central Africa
Whilst considerable progress has been made, gender inequalities that disadvantage girls across the globe persist in West and Central Africa. Even before schools were forced to close in response to COVID-19, 41 million children and adolescents were out of
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Let Girls Learn!
Let Girls Learn! sets out Save the Children’s global policy position on girls’ education and realising gender equality in and through education. It provides governments with suggestions, recommendations and data that can assist in the design of education
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Lead Like a Girl: Ensuring adolescent girls’ meaningful participation in decision-making processes
Adolescent girls have the right to participate in decision-making for matters that affect their lives and their communities, and nearly every country in the world has committed to delivering on this right. Including adolescent girls’ perspectives in polic
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Save the Children Commitments to Generation Equality: Ending child marriage and ensuring accountability to girls
More than 25 years since the Beijing Declaration first recognized the girl child as vital to the attainment of equality, sustainable development, and peace, girls worldwide, in all their diversity, continue to face rights abuses that stand in the way of a
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Allt jag inte får göra: Unga om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck
I rapporten Allt jag inte får göra- unga om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck synliggörs ungas egna röster om att leva i en hederskontext, baserat på de drygt 2500 samtal som kommit in till Rädda Barnens Stödchatt Kärleken är fri sedan den startade 2015
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Progress Toward Ending Child Marriage Over the Last Decade: A missed opportunity to deliver for the world's most marginalised girls
Compared to the previous generation, the incidence of child marriage worldwide has declined. However, strides forward have suffered from substantial limitations. At the global level, child marriage is still too widespread, and progress too slow, to meet t
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Reimagining Girls’ Education: Solutions to keep girls learning in emergencies
Girls in emergencies are facing several challenges related to education, such as disadvantages at all stages of education, struggle to learn, and higher risk of being out-of-school. This material provides an empirical overview on how to support the learni
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Menstrual Health: A definition for policy, practice and research
The term “menstrual health” has seen increased use across advocacy, programming, policy, and research, but has lacked a consistent, self-contained definition. As a rapidly growing field of research and practice, a comprehensive definition is needed to: En
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Understanding the Relationship Between Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation: A statistical overview of their co-occurrence and risk factors
The well-being of millions of girls around the world is threatened by child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). Both child marriage and FGM have existed for generations due to gender inequality. In many countries where both practices are common,
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Fighting for a Better Future: Stories of hope and change
Wherever Somalis go, they will strive to maintain their traditions and culture as a way of safeguarding their identity and position in society. Although most of these traditions are useful in maintaining social cohesion, others have been harmful. One such
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A practitioner’s Guide to the Ethical Conduct of Research on Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings
This guide offers a framework for decision-making regarding whether and how to conduct research on child marriage in humanitarian settings.