UNESCO Chief Audrey Azoulay Discusses Education of Girls in India
The Director General of UNESCO Ms. Audrey Azoulay has commended India for promoting education of girls in the country. On a 3-day official visit to India, Ms Azoulay said on…
How Girls Learn Computer Programming in Rural Kyrgyzstan
In rural Kyrgyzstan, according to UN Women, the first ever Technovation Coding Caravan for girls has taught more than 600 girls the basics of computer programming. Launched in Talas Province,…
Nominations Invited for UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education
UNESCO has launched the call for nominations for the 2019 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education. The Prize annually awards US$ 50,000 to two outstanding laureates. Governments of UNESCO…
Scheme to Help Out-of-School Adolescent Girls Goes Online
Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Rakesh Srivastava, launched today the Phase -1 of the online module of the Rapid Reporting System (RRS) for the Scheme for Adolescent…
Refugee Girls Forced into Prostitution in Libya
Some 25,800 unaccompanied or separated children arrived in Italy by sea in 2016 – that’s more than double the 12,360 who arrived during the previous year. These children account for…
Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls Continues in Iraq
Mass graves and further evidence of sexual exploitation of women and girls, torture and killings, child recruitment and other grave human rights abuses committed by Islamic State of Iraq and…