The One-Child Policy: How Ending It Affects Sex Imbalance in China
By Beverly Hill, Founder & President of the Gendercide Awareness Project By terminating the one-child-only policy, China enacted one of two measures needed to correct its most acute women’s problem...
View ArticleA Global Problem: Visualization of FGM Around the World
FGM has a reputation of being a rare and remote practice, inflicted on only girls in the poorest communities in the most underdeveloped countries. L ittle surprise. Given the brutality and futility of...
View ArticleEnding Child Marriage and FGM Saves Lives and Money
This post is co-written by: Rachel, Policy Associate and Salma, Egypt Fellow Around the world, women’s and girls’ value as human beings is all too often based largely upon their sexuality, rather than...
View ArticleAn Equal World is a Better World – Don’t Leave Anyone Behind
Tomorrow, Girls’ Globe is celebrating International Women’s Day under the slogan “An equal world is a better world – don’t leave anyone behind.” Through this theme we want to highlight the fact that a...
View ArticleBoys in the GIRL4ce Movement
Written By: Sarah Otto, Help Lesotho Intern 2016 The International Women’s Day (IWD) campaign theme for 2016, #PledgeForParity, means that, “Everyone – men and women – can pledge to take a concrete...
View ArticleFinding Perspective on World Water Day
Post Written by Jennifer Iacovelli Three weeks after I realized my marriage was ending, I traveled to Nicaragua with WaterAid on an insight trip representing Mom Bloggers for Social Good. We visited...
View ArticleLiberty and Justice for All
Post written by: Alicia Weigel I believe all people should feel empowered to make their own decisions. I believe all people should have access to health and safety as basic human rights. I believe all...
View ArticleWhat We Need to Know About HIV & Adolescent Girls
The term ‘adolescent girls’ encompasses, in theory, all those aged 10-24. In reality, the lower section of that age bracket – the 10-19 year olds specifically – receive the least attention and are...
View ArticleHIV/AIDS Prevention Starts with Combating Gender Inequality
Written by: Hayley Trinh, Communications and Development Intern, Education for Equality International Since the first known case of HIV in India was diagnosed in 1986, the number of people infected...
View ArticleHas Today’s Feminism Gone Too Far?
A common critique of today’s feminism is that it has ‘gone too far’. Some say that we’ve ‘created’ a gender ideology, that we hate men, that we cook up harassment stories, and that we’re easily...
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