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June 21, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
The Opportunity to Thrive: Girls' Education in Humanitarian Crises

In the shadow of this year’s World Refugee Day, 39 million girls living in countries impacted by conflict or natural disaster still do not have access to education. A lifeline in times of turmoil, ac…

Podcast Syrian refugee girls gesture as they sit inside a classroom at a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon, October 19, 2017.
Event by Meighan Stone, Matthew Reynolds, and Yasmine Sherif Women and Foreign Policy Program

June 28, 2013

Education
Water Hauling and Girls’ Education

The power of girls’ education in producing economic and social dividends has now been well-documented – indeed, it has come to be seen as one of the most potent vaccines against poverty and disease. …

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Blog Post by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Development Channel

October 7, 2020

Women and Women's Rights
Virtual Roundtable: Girls’ Education During Humanitarian Crises and Conflicts
Play School girls walk home in London, as the number of coronavirus cases grow around the world, in London.
Event by Anne-Marie Grey, Sherrie Rollins Westin, and Rachel B. Vogelstein Women and Foreign Policy Program

October 10, 2014

Asia
Malala’s Nobel Prize Highlights Girls’ Education

This morning’s awarding of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, along with children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi of India, comes at an important moment. Ms. Yousafzai, …

Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai poses for pictures at the United Nations in New York, New York, August 2014 (Courtesy Reuters/Carlo Allegri).
Blog Post by Catherine Powell Development Channel

August 22, 2024

Election 2024
Kamala Harris Sees the Road to the Top, But Will Voters Put Her There?

Who runs the world? Sorry Beyoncé, it’s not girls. But with Harris topping the ticket, that may change.

Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends Day one of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 19, 2024.
Article by Linda Robinson Women Around the World

February 20, 2015

Asia
UN Reports Rising Attacks on Girls’ Education

Attacks on girls’ schools and female students have appeared in the headlines regularly in recent years, from the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram to the assassination attemp…

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Blog Post by Catherine Powell Women Around the World