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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks to students during a visit to promote girls' education at Hun Sen Prasaat Bankong high school on the outskirts of Siem Reap March 21, 2015. Cambodia is one of 11 countries to be targeted in the first year of Obama's "Let Girls Learn" initiative, launched last summer through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha - GF10000033834

Education Plus Development

A global moment for local champions of girls’ education

Christina Kwauk

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Students eats their lunch at Kyamusansala Primary School in Masaka in southern Uganda March 24, 2009. MALTA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN MALTAREUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (UGANDA) - PM1E5560XG401

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Teachers can empower girls through sex education in Uganda

Christine Apiot Okudi

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

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Jamuna Devi Saud, 45, sits outside her house while practicing Chaupadi in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal February 16, 2014. Chaupadi is a tradition observed in parts of Nepal, which cuts women off from the rest of society when they are menstruating. Women who practice traditional chaupadi have to sleep in sheds or outbuildings while they are on their period, often with little protection from the elements. They are not allowed to enter houses or temples, use normal public water sources, take part in festivals or touch others during their menstruation, according to a United Nations field bulletin on the issue. Isolated in sheds that are frequently rickety and unhygienic, there have been cases of women dying while practicing chaupadi from illness, exposure, animal attacks or from fires lit in poorly ventilated spaces. Chaupadi was banned by Nepal's Supreme Court in 2005, but it is still common in the country's far and mid-western regions. Picture taken February 16, 2014. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 18 OF 20 FOR PACKAGE 'BANISHED ONCE A MONTH' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'CHAUPADI' - GM1EA350LH601

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3 strategies to address menstruation taboos for girls in Nepal

Ganga Gautam

Friday, September 21, 2018

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Non-formal girls’ life skills programming

Christina Kwauk, Amanda Braga, Helyn Kim, Kendra Dupuy, Sosina Bezu, and Are Knudsen

Friday, June 8, 2018

Twin girls walk to their school in Kodinji village in the southern Indian city of Kerala

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Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries

Kendra Dupuy, Sosina Bezu, Are Knudsen, Sandra Halvorsen, Christina Kwauk, Amanda Braga, and Helyn Kim

Monday, April 23, 2018

Maasai tribe students at the Shompole school that is supported by AMREF. This school supports alternative rights of passage for young Maasai tribe girls, that would prevent them from going through the traditional female circumcision and keep them in school through secondary school. June 11, 2014 in Shompole, Kenya. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images)..

Education in Developing Nations

Engaging the custodians of tradition and culture

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

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Jamaica’s policy for the school reintegration of school-age mothers

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

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Giving girls wings to fly: Tools to empower adolescent girls in rural communities in India

Armene Modi

Monday, November 6, 2017

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A baby touches her mother's shoulder as they rest at the shelter set up in the Lycee Philippe Guerrier ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares - S1BEUEWVDMAA

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Why child care is essential to young mothers’ education in Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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It happens here, too: Lessons for universities on preventing sexual harassment

Dick Startz

Friday, September 14, 2018

Mary Adhiambo, dries her maize in the sun outside her house in the U.S. President Barack Obama's ancestral village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 15, 2015. Adhiambi, 25, said they benefited from Barack Obama's Presidency as they have well tarmacked roads and electricity was connected to the village. "We received grants to build houses and shelter from the harsh weather as an indirect benefit from President Obama's leadership" she said. President Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia in July, his third major trip to Sub-Saharan Africa after travelling to Ghana in 2009 and to Tanzania, Senegal and South Africa in 2011. He has also visited Egypt, in North Africa, and South Africa for Nelson Mandela's funeral. Obama will be welcomed by a continent that had expected closer attention from a man they claim as their son, a sentiment felt acutely in the Kenyan village where the 44th U.S. president's father is buried. Picture taken July 15, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000168062

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Figures of the week: Female property ownership in sub-Saharan Africa

Dhruv Gandhi

Friday, September 14, 2018

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A global moment for local champions of girls’ education

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Reports

Non-formal girls’ life skills programming

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Events

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