Archive for the 'Education' Category
More than half of Ugandan girls who enrol in grade one drop out before sitting for their primary school-leaving examinations.
The fact that girls are dropping out between age 11 and 13 is being linked to the beginning of the menstruation cycle and its associated challenges.
Research conducted by a non-government organisation, the Forum of African Women [...]
Countries where women’s literacy rates and access to education are significantly worse than men’s tend to have higher levels of hunger, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
“Wherever women are not empowered you see high levels of hunger,” Suresh Babu, a senior research fellow with IFPRI, told IRIN.
The institute’s 2009 Global Hunger Index [...]
US teens are getting sex education, but most are not learning about birth control from their parents, new government data shows.
And rates of infection with sexually transmitted diseases reflect this — the annual rate of AIDS diagnoses for boys aged 15 to 19 years has nearly doubled in the past 10 years, and rates of [...]
One poisoning took place at a girls’ school in Charikar on Monday and another on April 26.
Nearly 90 young girls were taken to hospital after a suspected gas attack at their school in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the third in a series of such incidents north of Kabul, Afghan police and officials said.
The early morning [...]
Muslim women should be free to pursue a higher education no matter what their fathers say, according to a fatwa recently issued by the grand mufti of Egypt, a leading authority of Sunni Islam, according to The National, an Abu Dhabi-based newspaper.
The fatwa, which is similar to a nonbinding legal opinion, was issued last week [...]
Few reporters showed up for the Supreme Court’s hearing of a sexual harassment case involving a kindergartner. But Allison Stevens(*) sat in the front row, to oral arguments by the Supreme Court in the case of Jacqueline Fitzgerald, a kindergartner from Hyannis, Mass., who was sexually harassed as she rode the bus to school.
It was [...]
Every day, as they walked to school, Maryam Mansoor and her sister ran a gauntlet of intimidation and harassment by youths armed with knives.
“A lot of my classmates and other female students don’t come to school anymore because they fear the boys’ harassment and kidnappings,” said Maryam, 18, who finally quit school at her worried [...]
Taliban militants have banned female education in northwest Pakistan valley of Swat, depriving more than 40,000 girls of schooling while holding security forces at bay, officials said on Saturday.
“My daughters are sitting at home. Their future looks bleak because they will stay uneducated and I don’t see any improvement in situation,” said Mohammad Ayub, father [...]
The UN chief has urged world leaders to follow through on their commitment to poverty elimination
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said poverty in sub-Saharan Africa had increased between 1990 and 2005, and women and girls are most affected by bias and neglect. He was addressing the 63rd annual UN General Assembly on the [...]
An Auckland primary school teacher moonlighting as a prostitute will have to wait for a decision on her future employment by her school’s board of trustees.
The new teacher, a mother in her 30s with two children, has been working as a prostitute to supplement her income, the Herald on Sunday reported.
The newspaper, which did not [...]
The number of girls in poor countries who marry before the age of 18 will double to 100 million in the next decade, putting many at risk from AIDS, a report said last Thursday.
A global food crisis is making matters worse by pushing more families in the developing world to send young daughters into marriage [...]
Samia, aged 10, is one of the few girls in her village who attend school. “I like to learn. I like my school. I want to bring education to everyone here when I grow up,” she says.
The village of al-Quraiti, in al-Zaydia District of al-Hudeidah Governorate, western Yemen, is typical of many in rural Yemen, [...]
Having successfully raised the visibility of gender equality and women’s empowerment on the Accra Agenda, attention is now turning to the International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus in Doha, Qatar in November and the women are preparing to take forward their successes.
IPS Regional Director Paula Fray spoke [...]
When the National Women’s Studies Association formed in 1977, one of its founding members was the then-3-year-old Department of Women’s Studies in McMicken College of Arts and Sciences.
Thirty-four years and many shared experiences later, the department served as lead host for one of the largest NWSA conferences to date. About 1,500 feminist scholars and activists [...]
AKINA MAMA wa AFRIKA A Non-Governmental Development Organisation for African Women presents The African Women’s Leadership Institute (AWLI)
Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is an International, Pan-African, non-governmental development organisation for African women based in Kampala, Uganda with a UK/Europe Regional Office in London, United Kingdom. AMwA was set up in 1985 by women from different [...]
The Senate Inquiry into the sexualisation of children was tabled in the federal Parliament this week and one of its recommendations was a national approach to sex and relationship education in schools.
Many young people have been complaining that what they’re taught in class is not relevant to their lives.
Now researchers from the University of Western [...]
In a class on gender issues, senior high-school girls are discussing sexual harassment. More specifically, they are examining how the cases against former president Moshe Katsav and Vice Premier Haim Ramon have influenced their lives. Suddenly one girl asks another why she is wearing such revealing clothes.
“You can hardly imagine the discussion that ensued,” [...]
July 8 -11, 2008
Boston, MA
We’ve had overwhelming interest in scholarships to the summer institute on Media Madness. In order to accommodate as many people as possible, we are offering a two and a half day training as an alternative to the full institute. This training is free, though if you can give $50 we [...]
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Yemen’s Ministry of Education launched an extensive summer campaign in May to raise awareness of girls’ education.
The campaign targets seven out of 21 governorates, in addition to Socotra, Yemen’s biggest island in the Indian Ocean.
The campaign has been launched through a UNICEF initiative – Business Partnership for Girls’ Education [...]
At the 4th Annual Women Together Awards, sponsored by the Virtue Foundation and Women Together, Fundacion MIR was recognized for its commitment and social responsibility, re-integrating women into the labor force, its educational programs, meeting dietary needs of children, and its consciousness raising efforts to reduce the spread of HIV-AIDS viruses in the region. Founder [...]
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- The right of murder suspects to use their partner’s sexual infidelity as a partial defence in court is set to end
- 100 rapists are let off with a caution: The serious offences that never come to court
- Scotland Yard has instructed officers not to use the phrase ‘gang rape’ to describe such crimes because it is too ‘emotive’ a term
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- GLDVP January-April 2010 open training programme is now available
- Prostitution Clauses Policing And Crime Bill 2009 – ECP
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- FORWARD releases an Information Services and Support Guide for Young People in the UK
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