Gender

Maasai tribe elders and women gather for a forum organized by AMREF, and geared at sensitizing the elders and women towards an alternative rights of passage for young girls, that would stop female circumcision.

How young men can change the gender and social norms of the Maasai people to support girls’ education

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

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)..

Engaging the custodians of tradition and culture

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Supporting the education of teen mothers in Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

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

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Empowering adolescent girls: Promising approaches at key tipping points in their lives

Monday, November 6, 2017

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

Monday, November 6, 2017

Girls play a clapping game during a weekly education session about breast ironing and rape by survivor of breast ironing Julie Ndjessa at Ndjessa's family home in Douala, Cameroon, November 3, 2013. New government research shows that 'breast ironing,' where the breasts of young girls are flattened using a hot stone, has seen a 50 percent decline since it was first accidentally uncovered during a 2005 survey by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) on rape and incest in Cameroon. Picture taken November 3, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney (CAMEROON - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) - GM1EA1703F201

Translating competencies to empowered action

Christina Kwauk and Amanda Braga

November 6, 2017

Book launch | Reaching for the sky: Empowering girls through education

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Elizabeth Vreswyk, founder and president of AWTY Logistics, talks to GIS technician Brock Kralicek in the company's office in Dickinson, North Dakota

Removing barriers to women’s labor force participation

Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn, and Becca Portman

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Palestinian schoolchildren attend a lesson in a classroom on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Young in the southern Gaza Strip August 28, 2016. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - S1AETXZTQKAA

How can teachers be more gender inclusive in the classroom?

Christina Kwauk and Sarah Bever

Thursday, November 2, 2017