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Seven Years Too Long: Chibok Girls Await Freedom

Aug 15, 2021 | 0 comments

Ruth Pogu and Hassan Adamu, who were abducted in 2014 along with 274 other schoolgirls in what prompted the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign, emerged from the jihadist group’s Sambisa forest hideout in recent days, alongside men who called themselves...

Dr. Corbett Leads Way for Black Girls in Science

Dec 31, 2020

Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett has led the fight against COVID-19…and is providing a beacon for Black girls in science.

U.S. Congress passes measures to increase protections of Native women and girls

Sep 30, 2020

Senator Pelosi has signed two acts crucial to justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Tiffany explores why these acts are important, and sheds light on the MMIW epidemic.

95% of girls report that COVID-19 has negatively impacted their lives

Sep 29, 2020

Tiffany rounds up key takeaways from Plan International’s report, “Halting Lives,” which surveyed 7,000 girls in 14 countries about the impacts of COVID-19.

Girls Struggle in UK Lockdown

May 12, 2020

Junior Girl Phoebe Cawley continues our Girl News International with a look at the life of girls during the COVID lockdown in the UK.

Somali Girl’s Death “Compensated” for with 75 Camels

Mar 11, 2020

A Somali woman walks alone in central Mogadishu. © 2013 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch In February 2019, 12 year old Aisha Ilyes Aden was abducted from her local market in Northern Puntland, Somalia. She was cruelly raped and murdered by her abductors. Three...