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Educating Women
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WATCH: “Make Me Visible, Make Me Count” – A voice for girls in poverty

Since girls were originally left out of the Millennium Development Goals, The Girl Declaration was created by the Girl Effect and the United Nations Foundation to put girls on the post-2015 development agenda. 508 girls living ...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Human Rights

The UK’s Sexist Culture

Earlier this week a UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo, told the press she believes that the UK has a ‘sexist culture’; particularly when it comes to the portrayal of women in the media. A professor in public law ...
by James Walker
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Human Rights

Five Milestones For Women’s Rights We Should Achieve In 2015

This year will see the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995 in Beijing, which produced a blueprint for advancing women’s rights.  20 years on, what  still needs to be done for women?
by Sneha Nanavati
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Armenia
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Erdogan And The Armenian Genocide: The Dangers Of Distorting History

In late April, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, offered his condolences to Armenian families over an event that occurred nearly a century ago. Erdogan’s statements held particular significance given they...
by John Haltiwanger
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Human Rights

Putting Youth At The Centre Of The Human Rights Agenda

Youth form a crucial constituency for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and  – to overcome their growing disenfranchisement – he should lead in the development of a specific framework that sets out and champi...
by Yemurai Nyoni
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Human Rights

60,000 Dead in Syria {Cartoon}

The overall death toll in devastated Syria has surpassed an estimated 60,000 people, the United Nations said Wednesday, a dramatic figure that could skyrocket as the civil war persists. It’s “truly shocking” a...
by Mohammad Ali Ziaei
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Human Rights

Changing FGM traditions in Iraqi Kurdistan

In 2011, the Kurdish filmmakers Nabaz Ahmed and Shara Amin released a piece of work that addressed one of the biggest taboos in their home country: female genital mutilation. Today, their film ‘Handfull of Ash’ has ...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Human Rights

WATCH: Mapping Out Global Slavery in 2013

We tend to talk about slavery as a thing of the past, a dark passage of history that is long gone. This is far from reality. According to the Global Slavery Index 2013, released by the Walk Free Foundation on 17 October 2013, a...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Africa

‘No’ to Homosexuality, ‘Yes’ to Child Marriage in Nigeria

A man was beaten by members of the public in Kotodayo community in Ota in western Nigeria, on August 22, 2013, for allegedly being gay. This came in the wake of a bill passed in the Nigeria’s House of Representative on...
by Ndesanjo Macha
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