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Youth Voices: The Importance of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
There is a movement stirring in the global community to build a new strategy to address maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health around the world. One of these mechanisms is the proposed Global...
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Education: Girls’ Beacon of Hope
Written by Melody Mociulski, Chair and Founder of Educational Empowerment Girls around the world today are struggling to achieve their basic human rights – protection from forced labor, early marriage,...
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My Modi – The Analysis of an Affectionate Activist
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a special man. It is not just that he happens to lead the largest democracy on planet, or that he recently won his position in a landslide victory that brought...
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Light for refugee women
Today in Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Eritrea, people struggle under civil war and dictatorship. In these countries, many people are killed and forced to flee their homes. Many...
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The Integration Hypothesis
Empowering women and girls has taken me from East Africa to South and East Asia. The scope of my work has cut across sectors including health, trafficking prevention, gender based violence, water and...
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Breaking free from honor
In a rural community in Palestine, I watched a teacher tell a group of women that their husbands do not have the right to beat them, no matter what. “Even if he sees you kissing another man, he does...
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Still the second sex
In the 1970s, Sisa Abu Daooh’s husband died when she was six months pregnant with her daughter. With a nearly all-male workforce, she wasn’t able to find employment. As a widow, she faced stigma that...
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Periods Change Lives: Just a girl – yet a woman now
An original poem Written by Chandiru Barbra – Mackay Memorial College Nateete She was just a girl With the simplicity And naivity of childhood The world too friendly All faces smiling at her Never...
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Nakame’s tales
Written by Rose I loved Wednesday lessons.Every Wednesday, Pilawo ( brown rice) was offered for lunch at my high school. After days of posho, I looked forward to this delicacy. Immediately, I heard...
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Keep Women and Girls in Nepal Safe
Last October, I began a journey through the remote Langtang Mountain range in Nepal. The purpose of my visit was to experience how women of all ages are rallying their communities against the issue of...
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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...
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A 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...
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Ending 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...
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An 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...
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Assisted Reproduction for Single Women in Sweden
As of April 1, it will be legal for single women in Sweden to receive assisted reproduction. On January 13, 2016, the Swedish parliament accepted a government bill to give single women the right to...
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Boys 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...
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Finding 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...
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Liberty 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...
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What 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...
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HIV/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...
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