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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

Every day, girls face barriers to education caused by poverty, cultural norms and practices, poor infrastructure, violence and fragility. Girls’ education is a strategic development priority for the World Bank. CONTEXT Ensuring that all girls and young women receive a quality education is their...

When schools reopened recently in Afghanistan, only boys in grades 7 through 12 went back to class. Taliban leaders told girls that they must wait. "The explanation that we got from the Taliban is that this is just a slight delay, as they are working on operating procedures for girls," said...

The Taliban-appointed mayor of Kabul is telling most of the city government's female employees to stay home. In a new ruling passed down by the Taliban, Kabul interim mayor Hamdullah Namony said that women working for the city's government are to stay home pending a further decision, according to...

Marking International Women’s day, UNESCO unveils new data in a factsheet on girls’ education. The data is published as part of the #HerEducationOurFuture initiative, which aims to accelerate action for girls’ and women’s education by leveraging political and financial commitments, as well as...

Climate Justice and Reproductive Related Issues by Ifechukwu Juliet Climate justice is a term used to frame global warming as an ethical and political issue, rather than one that is purely environmental or physical in nature. This is done by relating the causes and effects of climate change to...

Scrum is a manner in which to accomplish goals, deliver products to a client and/or stakeholders, primarily in the Tech industry. More and more however, Scrum practices in part or in whole, have been successfully utilized to leverage Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles. Events such as the...