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Exploring how crisis and conflict affect women and girls.
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Mabel van Oranje is the chair of Girls Not Brides, a partnership of organizations around the globe dedicated to ending child marriage. She tells Women and Girls Hub why education is key to ending this harmful practice.
Around one in 10 women refugees travelling through Europe is pregnant. Better coordinated approaches from states and NGOs are urgently needed to keep women and their newborn babies safe and well.
In this first installment of a three-part series, we explore the threats faced by female refugees, especially Syrian women – including the risk of being trafficked into the sex trade on their journeys to Europe and even after reaching its shores.
Brazil has one of the world’s highest rates of sexual violence – but little national acceptance of its machismo culture. The use of social media is giving women and girls the courage to demand change.
During Sierra Leone’s Ebola crisis, thousands of girls became pregnant, some as young as nine. Communities report that there were increases in rape and in girls offering sex for money or services because of poverty bought about by the outbreak.
Traditional views toward gender roles that tend to be amplified by the ongoing cultural and political conflict have forced some women journalists to take hiatus not just from reporting, but also residing, in Libya.
In the four-year battle between rival factions to control Libya’s post-revolutionary political landscape, women journalists are highly visible and vulnerable. In part one of a two-part article, we present the voices of Libyan women forced into indefinite exile.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa infected more than 28,600 people and killed at least 11,315. After the World Health Organization said Ebola is no longer an emergency of international concern, Kate Thomas asked three Liberian women how the crisis impacted their lives.
Sharing food from their homeland is helping the San Francisco Bay Area’s women refugees to resettle in a new country, while raising awareness of migration and its difficulties.
Rainy Octura Wente is only the second woman on Sumba Island in eastern Indonesia to file for a divorce, after suffering domestic abuse. Now, she works for the Sumba Foundation, organizing a school lunch program and educating children about domestic violence.
In the West African country of Togo, aid agencies say thousands of girls fall into the hands of traffickers every year. Some manage to escape, only to be stigmatized by their communities, and are forced to work for a pittance.
Nihad was one of 5,000 Yazidi women and girls kidnapped by the Islamic State group. When she escaped, her suffering followed her to the refugee camps of Iraq. NGOs like Amar try to reach Nihad and other women who face social stigma and suffer psychological trauma.
Traditional anti-radicalization programs target young men deemed to be at risk of joining violent groups, but in Somalia women are now being recognized as important players in peace- and security-building to combat extremism.
New research suggests mental health services are failing migrant mothers in the U.K. and other developed countries. Campaigners are calling for an end to asylum policies that increase women’s vulnerability to depression and even suicidal thoughts.
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