Tags archives: girls

Tell us what YOU think about Valentine's Day
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Is romance in the air where you are? Valentine's Day is looming and stores are stuffed with everything heart shaped. Is it overkill or never enough? We want to know what YOU think [...]

Let's Talk About the Weather: Girls and Climate Change
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Climate change poses the greatest risk to the most vulnerable members of society. Often, this means girls. Climate change doesn't just mean changes in temperature up and down, b[...]

Through Their Own Eyes: Haiti One Year Later
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Last year, on this day, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti. One year later, the country is still rebuilding and girls are a big part of that process. This October, Plan gave c[...]

It's a Girl Thing: Collecting Water Around the World
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One thing we talk a lot about when it comes to girls is water. We talk often about how being responsible for collecting water for the whole family, often walking for long distance[...]

Female Journalists Changing the World Through the Written Word
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When I read this article about four female journalists being honoured at the Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women's Media Foundation, I got to thinking about t[...]

Violence against women: It's not just a problem "over there"
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The Globe and Mail calls violence against women "an international epidemic." According to Together for Girls, "Sexual violence against girls is a global human rights injustic[...]

The Power of the (Virtual) Pen
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If you learned that a woman had been sentenced to death by stoning for cheating on her husband, what would you do? Most of us wouldn't know what to do. But when Heather Reisman, [...]

Manar: Rome wasn't built in a Day, and girls rights won't be either
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Our amazing Because I am a Girl Speaker's Bureau strikes again! A group of our spokesgirls headed to Ottawa to speak on behalf of girls a couple of weeks ago. I got the chance to c[...]

One in 6 people on the planet don't get enough to eat - And most of those are girls
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Does this map look distorted? It is. Instead of presenting the world according to area, this map's distorted country size shows the proportion of all underweight children i[...]

5 Reasons Not to Take Access to Clean Water for Granted
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IMAGINE: Walking for hours to collect water for your shower, drinking water or laundry. 40 Billion Hours: African women walk over 40 billion hours each year carrying cisterns weig[...]