Image from Risk Management Magazine. Last week 96 Ugandan girls aged between 14 and 18 were stopped at Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Kenya while trying to board a flight to the United Arab Emirates. The girls were intercepted by Kenyan authorities after a...
Internet Creep, by Rebecca Morgan. 2011. Originally, the word “grotesque” was used in the 15th century to describe “a style of elaborate curves and decorative elements of paintings found in the ruins of Roman caves or grottoes.” Today, it is...
An ethnic Uighur woman holding her child in a shop in Kashgar, in China’s far western Xinjiang province. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images While those in the West stare at their phones or fret about a few extra pounds gained over the holidays, there is torture and...
Ritu Saini, Chanchal Kumari, Neetu Mahor, Gita Mahor, and Rupa at the café. Image: Sheroes’ Hangout For this, our last commentary, I am focusing on two stories from India. These embody the trauma and healing that girls are forced to endure, through no...
Dear Readers,It is with mixed feelings that I inform you that this is the last issue of Girl New International. It has been a long two years. While a large part of Girl Museum’s work is to keep informed of the news and to share it with our community, being so...
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the first few lines of “You Must Love Me” from the film Evita stuck in my head. Eva Perón (played by Madonna) meant something very different when she sang the opening lines: Where do we go from here? This...
