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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...

Africa is home to approximately two-thirds of the global population living with HIV and—despite a decline in HIV infection rates and AIDS mortality—the epidemic continues to take a toll across the continent. At the same time, Africa is home to 15 of the 20 countries with the highest prevalence rates...

Although a short video, Professor Sonia Bhalotra addresses whether a decline in child morality influences women's choices of labour market participation, marriage, and fertility. ...

This report shows that girls who are married off earlier are at greater risk for depression and other mental health problems. ABSTRACT: Lower awareness of health knowledge, physical growth and development, women bearing children at early ages face higher risk of maternal health problems, disability...

A capacity-building tool for child protection in and after emergencies. The ARC resource pack provides an essential collection of information and training material to strengthen people’s capacity: to tackle the root causes of children’s vulnerabilities to build effective child protection systems for...

Rehabilitation of the Victims of Trafficking: A Multidisciplinary Approach Guidance on the formation of multidisciplinary teams for the provision of services to child victims of abuse and trafficking. It is based on the principle that effective rehabilitation requires systematic and coordinated...

Introduction to Child Protection: Teacher's Handbook A handbook that identifies and addresses issues of child protection in education in Southern Sudan, and mobilizes communities into action to make schools protective and nurturing learning environments. Covers safeguarding children from abuse...

This piece looks at the rates of HIV/AIDs among children in Sub-Saharan Africa and current programs to address such rates. https://blog.savethechildren.org/category/u-s-programs/child-survival