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    Maimuna’s story, Nigeria

    2013
    In this article, Girl Child Concerns, an arm of the organisation, Girls Not Brides, shares this heart-warming testimonial of a young Nigerian girl, Maimuna.
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    Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls

    TED, 2012
    All across the globe there are policies, conventions and laws, championed by great people, all with the aim of ensuring the safety and advancement of young people, especially girls. By and large, these have all failed.
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    Education under Occupation: Listening to Girls? Stories

    2008
    What are Palestinian children's reflections on the impact of the Israeli Occupation on their lives and education? What are the differences between boys' and girls' experiences?
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    Boys Lower Schooling in Lesotho

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Why is it that in Lesotho, girls are more likely to enrol at school, particularly at secondary level, and have higher literacy rates than boys? Traditionally, boys in Lesotho are involved in herding livestock from a young age, particularly among poor communities and those living in the highlands. In addition, as villages in the highlands tend to be isolated, pupils find schools harder to get to.
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    Gender Sensitive Educational Policy and Practice: the Case of Malawi

    Zomba University, 2003
    What progress has been made towards ensuring that education in Malawi is gender sensitive? This paper provides an update on the Malawian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology's Policy and Investment Framework (PIF) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which emphasise the need to address gender imbalances and inequity in the education system at all levels.
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    The Safe Schools Program: a Qualitative Study To Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi

    2008
    This resource summarises the results of a participatory learning and action (PLA) research activity conducted in Malawi's Machinga District to help raise awareness, involvement, and accountability around school-related gender-based violence at national, institutional, community and individual levels. The study was conducted in October and November 2005 by DevTech Systems, Inc.
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    Safe Schools Every Girl's Right

    Amnesty International, 2008
    Every day, girls face being assaulted on their way to school or abducted for trafficking, pushed and hit in school grounds, teased, humiliated and insulted by their classmates, sexually harassed or abused because they are lesbians, disabled, migrants or refugees. In conflict areas, girls can be seized by armed groups, and some are injured or killed on their journey to school.
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    Tunaweza (kiswahili: we can do it!): Measuring the Impact of Sport on Girls? Life Skills

    BRIDGE, 2008
    How can we be sure that sport-in-development is a useful tool for improving life skills among girls and young women? This paper presents a method for measuring changes in life skills developed by Moving the Goalposts (MTG), a sport-in-development program in Kilifi, Kenya which uses football to improve the life skills of participants.
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    Grandmothers: a Learning Institution

    2005
    To what extent are development programmes overlooking the potential role of older women, or 'grandmothers', as valuable resources in children's education? This paper examines evidence regarding the role of grandmothers in children's development, particularly in terms of education, in Africa, Asia, Latin America,the Pacific, Aboriginal Australia, and Native North America.
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    Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007

    2007
    Girls are getting a raw deal. They face double discrimination on account of their gender and their age, and in many societies they remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' is the first in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.

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