Youth Rights
Mar 28th, 2022 |
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By Joshua Mirondo, Transition Earth. Young people are diverse and so are their needs, therefore to get their attention, one needs to be considerate. In a community where reproductive health is often called immoral, it takes a lot of work to break these barriers. Many interventions have been made to ensure that young people have
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Tags: Aga Khan Foundation, reproductive health, reproductive rights, sports, SRHR, Tackle Africa, Tiko
May 20th, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. It’s obvious that people all over the world have not just been inconvenienced by COVID-19, but many lives have been turned upside down and put at great risk due to a number of factors. Education is one such important sector where students are struggling to adjust. It’s hard enough in the developed
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Tags: child marriage, COVID-19, girl's education, poverty, rights of girls
Feb 12th, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. Imagine being a small-scale farmer in a developing country, trying to grow crops in challenging conditions that farmers have faced for generations. Then increasingly severe climate impacts really start to throw things out of whack. Droughts, floods, and erratic weather conditions threaten livelihoods and the ability to provide adequate amounts of food
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Tags: child marriage, Climate Change, Family Planning, girl's education
Oct 11th, 2018 |
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By Suzanne York. At first glance, the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on global warming may not seem to have much to do with the International Day of the Girl, observed on October 11th. But climate change has a lot to do with girls, and especially the rights of girls. For one
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Tags: Climate Change, Family Planning, girl empowerment, girl's education, International Day of the Girl, reproductive rights
Mar 8th, 2018 |
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By Suzanne York. As the world recognizes International Women’s Day this March 8th, there is no shortage of important issues affecting women that should be brought to the table. As movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp have brought little discussed problems to the forefront, there is reason, at long last, to feel hope that “society”
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Tags: child marriage, child marriage-free zone, Climate Change, empowerment, girl's education, human rights
Jul 24th, 2017 |
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By Suzanne York. In Uganda, home to incredible biodiversity and some of the world’s friendliest people, the idea of a growing population is viewed by some as a positive, when actually the 1.2 million people added to the population every year is putting enormous pressure on people, communities and the environment. The facts speak for
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Tags: contraceptives, demographic dividend, education, Family Planning, Population Growth, sustainable livelihoods
Jul 10th, 2016 |
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By Suzanne York. July 11th is officially recognized as World Population Day, a day meant to raise awareness on the impacts of population growth on people and the environment. This year’s theme for World Population Day is “investing in teenage girls.” In much of the world today their needs are shunted to the back burner
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Tags: child marriage, Ethiopia, girl's rights, World Population Day
Mar 14th, 2016 |
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By Suzanne York. If you are a parent or a teacher, you might be excused for occasionally thinking that there are too many young people. But it’s true that there are a lot of young men and women living right now, as noted in a recent op-ed in the New York Times by Somini Sengupta,
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Tags: ILO, Nigeria, Population Growth, social enterprise, World Bank, youth unemployment
Apr 29th, 2015 |
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By Kimberly Absher, guest youth blogger, www.howmany.org. A recent Guardian article said youth unemployment “is an issue set to destabilise fragile economies, become a breeding ground for extremism, and leave a generation permanently scarred.” Indeed, it is cause for concern when not only considering today’s out-of-work young people, but also the workforce of tomorrow. According to
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Tags: cooperatives, youth empowerment, youth unemployment
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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By Kimberly Absher, guest youth blogger, www.howmany.org. After looking at sexual education challenges in South Africa and in the U.K., it seems appropriate to examine our sexual education picture in the United States. Currently there are no national standards for sexual education. Instead, the width and breadth of what students learn is determined on a state
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Tags: abstinence only, reproductive rights, sex education, youth empowerment