Category: girls
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#STRENGTHIE SELFIE; ONE’S CAMPAIGN
ALERT!!! Latest campaign in town. Nine female musicians from seven African countries have come together on a new song calling for women and girls to be central to the fight against poverty. In a shift from previous anti-poverty music campaigns that have been criticized for ignoring African musicians and misrepresenting the continent, the video…
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UNFPA:214 RESCUED GIRLS PREGNANT
Executive Director, UNFPA, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, disclosed that in the last one year, the organization had taken deliveries of over 16,000 pregnancies in the troubled North East part of the country and that following the latest rescue of additional 234 women and children by the Nigerian Army from the Sambisa Forest in Borno State,…
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My Super Story; What Education Means For Girls
Before we become women, we are first girls. As a girl child my siblings and I were made to watch the 9pm news and that was how I knew Eugenia Abu, Cyril stober, Frank olize and so on. I read the book “the Famished Road” by the Nigerian author, Ben Okri when I…
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ORANGE SCARF CAMPAIGN; A new fight to end violence against women and girls.
Getty Images UN Facts and Figures: Ending Violence against Women A pandemic in diverse forms-According to a 2013 global review of available data, 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. However, some national violence studies show that up to 70 per cent of…
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THE PREGNANCY STORIES NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR; WORLD POPULATION DAY!
Getty Images Today is world’s population Day and I join the the United Nations in raising awareness about the prevalence of adolescent pregnancy. Every year around the world around the world 16 million girls under 18 years of age give birth yearly. 19 out of every 100 girls in developing countries give birth before 18…
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THREE MAJOR PRIORITIES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
In recent decades, the status of women and girls has improved around the world, but much more needs to be done. The vicious rape and death of a young woman in Delhi recently horrified us all, and also underlined just how far the world needs to go in order to protect women and girls. Violence against women…
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I REMEMBER…..FOR THE NIGERIAN GIRL CHILD.
This month will be all for the the Girl child…..not all the gist sha but almost all. So if you have a girl child, or a little sister or a niece or you want to be a part of the commemoration of the day of the girl child this month, you may want to get…
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YWCA Nigeria holds its Youth Retreat and Council Meeting
The Young Women Christain Association of Nigeria wishes to notify the general public (especially young women and girls) of its National Youth Retreat and Council Meeting billed to hold between 31stAugust, 2012 and 1st September, 2012. The Themes for both meetings are: National Youth Retreat; It is our World: Where is our Place? National Council; Women in Conflict…
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MARRIED AT SEVEN: CHILD OR BRIDE?
Imagine a child, a seven year old taking up duties and responsibilities as a wife; cooking, cleaning, washing clothes ( not just hers but also for an older man) and having sex!. I can’t but scream out loud when I try to imagine these things. A child is a child no matter how you look…
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