Gender and youth development experts discuss knowledge gaps and challenges around designing programs to support girls facing forced marriage, FGM and other threats to their health and rights, and provide six recommendations.
We cannot hope to end violence against women and girls without addressing a practice that leaves girls vulnerable to many forms of violence: child marriage.
Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights. Its impact ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical, sexual and mental consequences for women and girls, including death.
They say you can take the girl out of the dungeon, but you can’t take the dungeon out of the girl.
As girls grow up, they face challenges at every turn. For refugee girls, those risks and challenges can be life-threatening. Learn why they face violence, abuse, early marriage and isolation — and how we're helping them cope.
If you think domestic violence is limited to adults, you’d be incorrect. In a recent survey, approximately 1.5 million U.S. high schoolers—both boys and girls—admitted to being victims of physic...
I’m convinced more than ever that how we choose to view a situation affects the outcome. There is the cliche question of do you see the glass half empty or
The video demonstrates why violence against women is everyone's problem.
Now that technology can show harassment, will women be believed?
Our long-held notions of boys as being more stoic and girls as being more expressive may lead Americans to overrate the severity of male physical pain.
A growing number of teenage girls are incarcerated each year. Many have injuries consistent with sexual assault, and up to a third are or have been pregnant. But the care provided in detention is often inadequate for girls because the assessment of their needs misses the mark.
Rachael Denhollander’s What Is a Girl Worth? is a hard book to read. But it’s also an important book to read. While it tells of the horrendous crimes perpetrated by just one man, it warns that many similar crimes have been and are being perpetrated by a great many other predators. While it focuses largely on one woman’s suffering, it reveals how so many other victims have suffered as a consequence of crimes committed against them. And while it tells …
When it comes to true crime, women are often both victim and audience. Why are female readers drawn to tales of their own destruction?
Do you find yourself saying things like “sksksk” more often than should ever feel natural? How about your social media? Are you constantly posting, especially if something has the least bit of an artsy aesthetic? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you just might be a VSCO girl!
I wasn’t surprised when my parents told me I would attend an all-girls high school. I had heard my mother marvel about how empowering and impactful an experience it would be and my protests seemed to do nothing to sway her opinion.
A woman who as a teen was forced into sex trafficking reconnects with the woman who rescued her.