The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded its 2026 Prize for Girls’ and Women ...

The Niñas con Oportunidades program has received the 2026 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education for its contribution ...

While Sub-Saharan African countries have made progress on gender equality and significant strides in education, girls’ schooling remains a major challenge. Millions of young girls still lack the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Afghanistan remains the sole nation where girls are banned from secondary and higher ...

, Oct. 12 -- President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday called for concerted efforts by the government, families and society to end ensure girls' safety and education, end child marriage, and ...

Education is a human right. It is both a right in itself and also a pathway to the enjoyment of other rights. Education is also an inalienable right for every child, and every child deserves the ...

All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes. As a result, girls and young women have a hard time exploring the subjects and picturing themselves in related roles. Some progress ...

The UN children’s agency has urged Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government to immediately lift a ban on girls' education beyond primary school, saying that if the ban continues until 2030 more than 4 ...

The students of St. Joseph Secondary School, Kenya. Photo courtesy of Catherine Mulwa S.S.J., Coordinator for the Bakhita Partnership in Kenya. Elizabeth Mbula speaks carefully and deliberately over ...

Sadaf, age 18, joined the inaugural round of the Stealth Sisters program in July 2022, only months after the Taliban closed schools for girls in Afghanistan. Joining the program was an act of ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 13 (IPS) - “She was at her brilliant best, speaking fearlessly and boldly about the treatment of women by the Afghan Taliban, robbing an entire generation of girls their future, ...

The Netflix series Adolescence has sparked important conversations about the role of social media in spreading harmful content. It has widened the public’s understanding of the rampant uptake of ...