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Shamed and Blamed: Pregnant Girls’ Rights at Risk in Sierra Leone
Thousands of pregnant girls, excluded from mainstream schools and barred from sitting upcoming exams, risk being left behind as Sierra Leone moves forward from the Ebola crisis, Amnesty International said…
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The Devastating Impact of Child Marriage on Girls Around the World
Child marriage — when an individual is married before the age of 18 — impacts 15 million girls each year, or 41,000 girls every day in lower-income countries. In other…
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Take Action to End Child Marriage on International Youth Day
[caption id="attachment_63101" align="aligncenter" width="2300"] Groom and underage bride during a mass marriage in Malda, India. March 2, 2006. Child marriage, which is illegal under international law and prohibited in many…
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“I Didn’t Know You Could Get Pregnant From Having Sex.” Breaking Barriers to Women’s Rights in Burkina Faso
[caption id="attachment_62966" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] Young women hold hands in a shelter run by Nuns, these young women have courageously fled forced marriage or early and unwanted pregnancies. Ouagadougou. July 2014[/caption]…
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Burkina Faso – Elections cannot ignore women’s crisis
Burkina Faso must urgently tackle the nationwide crisis where forced and early marriage, unwanted pregnancy and lacking sex education reduce hundreds of thousands of girls and women to second class…
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Raped, Pregnant, and Denied a Life-Saving Abortion—All at 10-Years-Old
By Debbie Sharnak, Argentina-Paraguay country specialist A ten-year-old girl and her mother arrived at a hospital in Asunción, Paraguay on April 21 with stomach pains. The doctors quickly discovered the…
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What’s next for women’s rights? Have your say!
This month we celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 and the kick-off of the 59th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Both of these events happen every year. But…
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Celebrate a Victory for Dominican Women & Urge El Salvador to Follow!
The Dominican Republic has taken an important step forward in terms of the rights of women and girls by ending its total ban on abortion. Now it is El Salvador's…
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Gender-Based Violence and the Arms Trade Treaty
[caption id="attachment_55941" align="alignleft" width="3529"] FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] By: Alice Dahle, Co-chair, Women's Human Rights Thematic Specialist On December 24, the first ever international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) regulating the sale…
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A Discriminatory and Dangerous Law that is Killing Women and Girls in El Salvador
[caption id="attachment_53891" align="alignleft" width="3456"] Accused and charged with having an abortion after a miscarriage at 18 years old.[/caption] By Chloe Horsma, Amnesty International USA youth activist Probably the greatest obstacle…
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Why Birth and Death are Simultaneous for Women in South Africa
[caption id="attachment_55591" align="alignleft" width="4000"] Poor infrastructure, lack of privacy and limited access to health services are only a few of the factors contributing to the devastating maternal mortality rate in…
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Let’s put the 16 Days campaign out of business
[caption id="attachment_55471" align="alignleft" width="3697"] (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] We all know how unfortunately easy it is to find innumerable instances of violence against women occurring on a daily basis in every…