WASHINGTON D.C./Séoul, le 21 janvier 2025 – À l’approche de la Journée internationale de l’éducation, le groupe de rock coréen W24 se joint à la campagne « Répondez à l’appel » du Partenariat mondial...
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K-Pop group W24 joins GPE & youth around the world in calling for more education financing
WASHINGTON D.C./Seoul, January 21, 2025 – Ahead of the International Day of Education, Korean rock band W24 joins the Global Partnership for Education “Answer the Call” campaign to sound the alarm on...
Afghanistan + 7 more
Partnering with women-led organisations to address child marriage in South Asia - Guidance Note 2024
Highlights Addressing child marriage requires a gender-transformative approach to programming and policy-making. This means implementing programmes that operate within communities to rebalance power...
World + 1 more
Over 100 NGOs call on the government to prevent further UK aid cuts
Today, Wednesday 18 September, over 100 leaders of the UK international development, humanitarian and peacebuilding sector have come together ahead of the autumn budget, to urge the government to...
Together to #ENDviolence: Leaders' Statement. Six game-changing actions to End Violence Against Children
One billion children experience violence and abuse every year. That shocking figure has risen even higher during the COVID-19 pandemic. Violence prevention and response services have been disrupted...
A Review of the Effectiveness of the New Legal Regime to Prevent Child Marriages in Bangladesh: Call for Law Reform
Executive Summary The current law in Bangladesh that addresses child marriage is the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 2017 (CMRA) repealing the earlier British law of 1929. The Act sets the minimum age...
Burkina Faso + 5 more
COVID-19 et mariage des enfants en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
Présentation de la situation L'impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 risque de mettre en danger des décennies de progrès dans le domaine des droits des filles et de l'égalité de genre. En fin février,...
Burkina Faso + 5 more
Covid-19 and child marriage in West and Central Africa
Setting the scene The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic risks undoing decades of progress for girls' rights and gender equality. When cases of COVID-19 started emerging in West and Central African...
A joint solidarity letter to the African Union on the impact of COVID-19 on girls’ education and child marriage
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency, one which is likely to have a devastating effect on the African continent if the trends seen in other parts of the world take root in the...
A Guide to Using the SADC Model Law on Eradicating Child Marriage and Protecting Children Already in Marriage For Parliamentarians, Civil Society Organisations and Youth Advocates
Child marriage is rooted in gender inequality and in the low value accorded to girls, and is exacerbated by poverty, insecurity and conflict. It denies girls their rights and undermines numerous...
At biggest ever global meeting on ending child marriage, civil society calls for renewed action to end the practice by 2030
KUALA LUMPUR – Progress to end child marriage must be accelerated, urged civil society organisations from around the world gathered in Malaysia this week for the world’s biggest ever global meeting...
Ending child marriage critical to achieving Sustainable Development Goals, says Girls Not Brides on International Day of the Girl Child
LONDON – As the world marks International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, Girls Not Brides is calling upon the international community to prioritise investments to end child marriage, stressing...
The Role of Parliamentarians in Ending Child Marriage
Foreword When a young girl becomes a bride, the consequences are lifelong – for the girl, for her children and for her nation. Every year some 15 million girls around the world are married as...