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“I want to be the kind of girl who educates other girls and reduces some of the ills that affect our society”
Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, we talk to Shalom - a Club Mentor at BRAC Tanzania's Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents Programme about her work with vulnerable girls.
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“We can’t reach all the refugee children – I get angry but it makes me work harder”
Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, we talk to Maria Assi of Beyond Association in Lebanon about her work with refugee children from Syria.
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“Women are complete human beings and don’t need to compare themselves”
ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï is marking International Women’s Day 2017 on March 8 by talking to inspiring women from across the globe.Read the full series here.
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School for grandmothers: Indian women aged 60 to 90 get lessons for the first time
Set up last year to mark International Women's Day, the school in Maharashtra state is thought to be the only one of its kind for uneducated, elderly women.
“We need to see girls as precious assets – custodians of the values that sustain our society”
Ahead of International Women's Day, Global Youth Ambassador Ousmane Ba writes about the struggle for girls' and women's rights in his native Sierra Leone and across the world.
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#RewritingTheCode campaign spotlights discrimination against girls and women
ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï launches its 2017 campaign today, ahead of International Women's Day, to expose the embedded values that discriminate against females in education, at work and in the wider world.
“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï is marking International Women’s Day 2017 on March 8 by talking to inspiring women from across the globe. Read the full series here.
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“Women often have an easier time checking their ego at the door and just getting things done”
ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï is marking International Women’s Day 2017 on March 8 by talking to inspiring women from across the globe. Read the full series here.
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“Don’t expect the field to be equal – you have to make it equal”
ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï is marking International Women’s Day 2017 on March 8 by talking to inspiring women from across the globe. Read the full series here.
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Champions for girls’ education: celebrities, charities and leaders campaigning for change
Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8 and as part of ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï's #RewritingTheCode campaign, we look at some of the people and organisations who are putting girls' education in the spotlight.