Kidnapped for marriage: Mali pupils join forces to save classmates
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Accompanying Aide, our girl ambassador to World Health Assembly
19-year old Aide from Potosi, Bolivia, had the chance to participate in the World Health Assembly in Geneva this past week. The days were long, exciting and emotional. Aide had two interventions in...
What impact has the Every Last Child campaign had in 2016?
In April 2016 we launched our Every Last Child campaign in over 70 countries. In the past year, we have seen incredible successes, progress and outcomes at national, regional and international...
Why Invest in Girls?
The 61st Session on the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) took place for two weeks earlier this Month. The priority theme “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Changing World of Work” covered...
Let girls grow up as equal citizens
This blog first appeared on The Daily Star publication....
Save the Children signs a MoU with human rights lawyer to petition against Child Marriage
Save the Children and Advocates Without Borders (a group of Human Rights Lawyers in practice in South Sudan) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to mount a legal challenge before Supreme...
Not just another Valentine’s Day: Malawi changes the child marriage law!
It is 5:00AM, the weather looks promising, the day looks very bright as well. Tiyamike* smiles as she yawns and reluctantly wakes up to face the day, after all its Monday, and she needs to go...
Hundreds gather urging Government to drop the 'special provision'
Hundreds of teenage girls, guardians and rights activists gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar, Dhaka on 18 January demanding the removal of the special provision from the draft Child Marriage...