IDG 2016: Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress

In 2011, the UN declared the 11th of October as the International Day of the Girl, to empower girls and to acknowledge the discrimination and inequality girls face on a global, and staggering, scale. The theme for the 2016 International Day of the Girl is Girls’...

Reactions to #Brexit: Post-Brexit, what do we need? Girl Power!

As with all the debates running up to the EU referendum in the UK, there were two ways of looking at how leaving the EU might affect British women and girls. The Leave campaign argued that Britain had a track record of introducing legislation on equal pay, FGM,...

Is This Girl Already ‘Up’?

Issues facing girls across the world have increasing been the topic of global projects, and indeed adverts, from the United Nations to Nike, suggesting that girls can (and should) be able to achieve much in life. While making the realities of life as a girl forefront...

Feminism axed from UK Politics A-level Syllabus

In a controversial move by one of the few female led departments in the UK government, Education Secretary and Minister for Women Nicky Morgan has axed both feminism and gender equality from the draft of the new Politics A-level syllabus. The draft, which is in public...

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