Jun 15,2022 – JORDAN TIMES – Samia Suluhu Hassan DODOMA — Earlier this year, world leaders began the process of committing to and endorsing the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. The declaration is a high-level statement meant to mobilize the necessary political will, community commitment, financial resources, and individual […]
Where are they? Zubeida Mustafa Published March 11, 2022 – MARCH 8 was International Women’s Day and as is now customary the event allows social activists and feminists to focus on ‘gender […]
10th December 2021 Ataul Fatir Tahir, Al Hakam New rankings of UK schools by The Sunday Times’ Parent Power show single-sex schools “triumph” over mixed schools in academic performance. The Times reported that amongst state […]
Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court, a top Islamic court, ruled that it was not against Islam to set a minimum age for girl’s marriage. By PTI| Published: 29th October 2021 Islamabad: Pakistan’s […]
The missing third: An out-of-school children study of Pakistani 5-16 year-olds Serious efforts need to be made to ensure that Pakistan has a large population of literate and educated girls […]
September 22, 2021 Asia Pacific By Mahmoud Mourad Shawki Abuzeid, Egyptian cleric and head of Al-Azhar’s mission to Afghanistan, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Cairo, Egypt, August 29, 2021. […]
Nearly 5 million fewer girls to be born worldwide over next 10 years By AFP – Aug 04,2021 – JORDAN TIMES AFP photo PARIS — An estimated 4.7 million fewer girls are […]
Her husband’s government has been excluded from peace talks but, as Amie Ferris-Rotman writes, Rula Ghani is rallying for Afghan women Amie Ferris-Rotman Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday 28 April 2019 23:00 […]
theguardian: Julia Gillard and Cate Blanchett — We both grew up in Australia, where our education provided strong foundations to meet our potential as female leaders. Millions of girls throughout the world deserve the same chance “If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, […]
Mic.com: by Marcie Bianco — For the bacha posh of Afghanistan, life is an open secret. From the Dari language, bacha posh translates as a female cross-dresser, a girl “dressed like a boy.” It also represents a small community of girls who pass as boys in Afghanistan, a country “that the U.N. says is theworst in the world to […]
theguardian: by Monica Mark — The young Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai with five of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, who managed to escape. Photograph: Isaac Babatunde/AFP/Getty Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, has urged Nigeria’s government to spend more on the […]
Huff Post: by Michelle Cove — I started to see it happen last year when my daughter was in third grade. She and her friends lost all ability to accept a compliment. If you told one, “Hey, congratulations on your science project,” she’d respond, “Thanks, but did you see Christine’s? […]
Parentdish: by Isabelle Khoo — Verizon’s Verizon’s latest commercial proves that advertisements can have powerful messages. In the ad, “Inside Her Mind,” the communications company tells us why we shouldn’t call girls pretty, but pretty brilliant instead. In the ad, a statistic by the National Science Foundation sheds light on the fact that […]
Parentdish: by Isabelle Khoo — Verizon’s Verizon’s latest commercial proves that advertisements can have powerful messages. In the ad, “Inside Her Mind,” the communications company tells us why we shouldn’t call girls pretty, but pretty brilliant instead. In the ad, a statistic by the National Science Foundation sheds light on the fact that […]
GirlRising – Flash mobs were last year’s trend, but this year it’s all about the lightning strength of the Girl Risingmovement– hundreds of people inspiring others to take action in their own communities by spreading a simple message: Educate girls, change the world. These new advocates for girls gather less surprisingly and […]
Her Campus: by Allie Sutherland – While many of us are privileged enough to go to college, barriers to girls’ education throughout the world show us that we shouldn’t take school for granted. That’s why the United Nations created the International Day of the Girl: to promote the rights of […]
What if I cover my hair and someone comes up to me and speaks Arabic and, not knowing how to answer him, I respond in Hebrew? By Nadi Bushnak Tahauka […]
The Express Tribune: Let’s temporarily come out of our latest feverish national dilemmas — whether the final word would be spoken by an elected or an unelected functionary of the state in the matter of the prime minister’s disqualification — and consider the significance of this question in other areas of our […]