A study of 27 projects educating marginalized girls in lower- and middle-income countries finds that whole communities need to be mobilized as “agents of change” to ensure the effects last Education ...

The student-led Girl Rising Club at The Rhoades School in Encinitas recently raised $1,700 to support girls’ education across ...

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 ...

Malala Yousafzai visits Dabab, Kenya on her birthday in 2016. Since 2013, the Malala Fund has distributed $65 million through more than 400 grants across 27 countries. Now, as gender equality and ...

The Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance will support local organizations helping young women overcome barriers to education and opportunity. Former First Lady Michelle Obama is renewing her ...

Barring girls from high school in Afghanistan violates their rights and has serious ramifications for Afghan society as a whole. "No country can move forward when half its population is left behind," ...

Imagine the powerful transformations that could be achieved if half the world’s population — girls and women — could realize their potential in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. This ...

An Emir urges community leaders to prioritize girls' education as a powerful tool to prevent the devastating consequences of ...

By Katare MbashiruDodoma. The government has launched a sweeping campaign aimed at dismantling barriers to girls’ education, reducing school dropout rates, and promoting the re-entry of adolescent ...

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 ...

At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, said on August 15.

Under the new scheme, the government will provide financial assistance of up to ₹56,000 per beneficiary, deposited in phased instalments ...