2015

Authoring Agency: UNESCOPublication Date: 2015The 2015 Global Monitoring Report provides a complete assessment of progress towards the target date for reaching the Education for All goals and examines whether the stakeholders upheld their commitments. It considers possible determinants of the pace of progress and identifies key lessons for shaping the post-2015 global education agenda. Learn […]

Authoring Agency: Equality NowPublication Date: January 2015Compiled twenty years after the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, this report details discriminatory laws regarding marital status, personal status, economic status, and violence.  It contains information on progress made towards ending sex discrimination in the law in various countries and offers suggestions for individuals and organizations

Authoring Agency: Equality NowPublication Date: February 2015This report documents a wide range of harmful consequences and calls on governments to remove all discrimination against women in passing on their nationality to their husbands and children. It highlights those countries where women do not have the same rights as men to convey their nationality, engendering much hardship

Authoring Agencies: Women’s Refugee Commission, UNICEF, and CPC Learning NetworkPublication Date: June 2015This report provides a framework for mitigating girls’ risk of gender-based violence (GBV) through economic strengthening. It outlines promising practices from humanitarian and development contexts and provides insights from a review of economic strengthening programs that targeted adolescent girls.  The report aims to inform the design,

Authoring Agencies: USAID, PEPFAR, and FHI 360Publication Date: 2015Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education (EAGLE) is a five-year, USAID-funded project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to create opportunities for adolescent girls to acquire the education and skills necessary to become active, positive agents for change within their families, schools, and communities. The purpose of this gender analysis is to identify

Authoring Agency: UNAIDSPublication Date: 2015This report examines the current AIDS response in Africa and provides recommendations for fast-tracking the response to HIV/AIDS among adolescent girls and women.  It is meant to guide regional and global advocacy and inform political dialogue over the coming year. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy StudiesPublication Date: 2015This report seeks to increase awareness of the gendered consequences of disciplinary policies for girls of color in the United States. It details the various ways girls of color experience inhospitable educational environments and the affects those environments have on

Authoring Agencies: STRIVE and Karnataka Health Promotion TrustPublication Date: 2015This report explores the barriers to girls’ education and the factors that help enable girls to attend school. It draws from in-depth interviews with adolescent girls in and out of school, their families and teachers and members of School Development Management Committees in Bagalkot and Bijapur Districts in northern

Authoring Agency: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human RightsPublication Date: February 2015A new study by the UN Human Rights Office states that attacks against girls accessing education persist and, alarmingly, appear to be occurring with increasing regularity in some countries.  The report, which reviews data on attacks on educational institutions and on girls who attempt to access

Authoring Agency: UNAIDSPublication Date: 2015This report outlines All In, a campaign for action and collaboration meant to drive better results with and for adolescents through critical changes in programs and policy. The report provides background data, a strategic framework, and suggestions for monitoring and evaluating progress in ending adolescent AIDS. Learn More …