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Improving girls’ lives in Nigeria
43% of girls are married in Nigeria before they turn 18, many before age 15. They are forced to leave school to attend to their new marital responsibilities and as a result many are illiterate. They are vulnerable to neglect and abuse by their husbands. These videos are part of an on-going educational and advocacy campaign to end child and forced marriage in Nigeria and improve girls’ lives. They were produced in 2016 by the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative and their partner organizations in Nigeria.
Girls in their own voices: Child Marriage in Nigeria
In northern Nigeria around three quarters of all girls are married before they turn 18, many before age 15 or whenever puberty begins. Because they are then forced to leave school, 75% are illiterate. Many are neglected or abused by their husbands.
Press Conference: Women partners from the Middle East on the current peace efforts in the region
Press conference sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Ireland featuring women partners from the Middle East who briefed on current peace efforts in that region. Participants are: Zahra’ Langhi from Libya, Sahar Ghanem from Yemen and Mouna Ghanem from Syria (via videolink from Geneva). Gloria Steinem is the moderator.
January 2016 WCLAC News Bulletin
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15-year-old Istar saved by the Galkayo Center
Dear Friends,
Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM (Female Genital Mutilation). But in Somalia, 98% of girls have been subjected to FGM. Many of these girls will lose their lives as a result – from hemorrhage, infection, or later in life during childbirth.
The New York Times quotes Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace (SWFP)
“Just on the doors of Geneva III, majority of men are rushing to negotiate Syrian future,” said our partner Mouna Ghanem, coordinator for the Syrian Women Forum for Peace, in a statement to the New York Times. She called women’s participation “shallow and insignificant.” This has to change!
BuzzFeed News: Meet The Two People Risking Everything to End FGM in Somalia
Our partner Hawa Aden, director of the Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development (GECPD), is risking everything to end female genital mutilation in Somalia
Read the article in BuzzFeed News
Premiere screening of the film “The Man Who Mends Women — the Wrath of Hippocrates”
THE MAN WHO MENDS WOMEN – THE WRATH OF HIPPOCRATES is the portrait of the impressive life and work of internationally renowned gynecologist Dr. Denis Mukwege from Congo.