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At what age: Early marriage and the right to education
The Right to Education Project (RTE) launched a new advocacy factsheet, At what Age?…Early marriage and the right to education, on the International Day of the Girl. This new factsheet is based […]
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Liberia: Something new for the senior class: Girls
BOPOLU, Liberia | When students return to the classroom at Bopolu Central High School this year, there will be something not seen at the school since it reopened after Liberia’s […]
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Liberia: Choosing family over education
MONROVIA, Liberia | Meriam Dukumue, like most women in her country, cannot read or write. Having suffered through years of conflict and now the breadwinner of her family, she is […]
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Angola: A Decidedly Mixed Bag
Eighteen-year-old Johanna da Conceicao Silva is one of the lucky ones. She has received a second chance to further her education through the Adolescent Girls’ Education Project, despite the ordeal […]
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Turkey: Unequal Opportunities
ISTANBUL | In today’s Turkey, if you are a young girl from a poor family with many children, and your parents have only attended primary school, there’s only about a […]
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Georgia: No Room For Sex Education
TBILISI | Sixteen year-old Andro Chitadze is a high school student at public school No. 61 in Tblisi. Like his classmates, Chitadze gets his information about sex everywhere except in […]
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Liberia: Dramatic Turnaround
MONROVIA, Liberia – On any weekday morning, the streets of the capital are filled with students dressed in their colorful school uniforms, having risen early to avoid competing with other […]
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Afghanistan: Education in a War Zone
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan | Seven-year-old Maryam’s mother found a black stain on her shirt one day after school. Though the little girl initially denied that anything had happened to her, she […]
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Poland: Into Bed, Blindly
Years ago, Poles would apparently blush when they came to one tick-box on customs and immigration forms: sex. Embarrassed at these foreigners’ bald intrusion into the darkest sphere of their […]
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Bosnia: Girls Just Want to Go to School
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina | In the capital, elementary schools, secondary schools, and especially universities are bursting at the seams with students. But just over an hour’s drive northwest of […]
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