Advance the Rights of Adolescent Girls

We strengthen grassroots programs and advance global policies that ensure adolescent girls get the information, services, skills, and support they need to protect their health and human rights. We believe that girls must be able to control their lives and bodies in order to live up to their full potential.

Helping Young Women and Girls Thrive in Kenya’s Kisumu County

Southwestern Kenya has the worst statistics in the country with respect to teen pregnancies and STIs amongst girls, and high rates of maternal mortality, and unsafe abortions. Monica Oguttu talks about what her organization, KMET, is doing to help adolescent girls and young women be healthy and thrive.

The Girl Declaration: A Call to Action for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

We asked 508 adolescent girls living in poverty in 14 countries around the world about their hopes and dreams, the challenges they face in their lives and the solutions they think are most important.

What’s Data Got to Do With It?

By Nina Besser Doorley
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September 1, 2016

Data can help us measure progress towards fulfilling the promise of the 2030 Agenda, but it can’t—and shouldn’t—drive the agenda itself.

Girls’ Rights Take Center Stage at the 21st International AIDS Conference

By Nicole Rajani
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July 29, 2016

Leaders recognize that women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality are essential to ending HIV epidemic.

UK Investment in Comprehensive Sexuality Education Pays Off

By Katherine Austin-Evelyn
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July 26, 2016

How a 10-year strategy used comprehensive sexuality education to halve the teen pregnancy rate in the UK.

Reducing HIV among Girls and Young Women Critical to Ending Global Epidemic

July 12, 2016

IWHC will join with leaders of several major institutions engaged in responding to HIV and AIDS to put forth plans to curb the epidemic among girls and young women, who are disproportionately affected.

Nothing About Us Without Us: Governments Must Engage Youth in HIV/AIDS Response

By Somer Nowak
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June 22, 2016

Governments must act immediately to halt the spread of HIV among its young populations, and young people themselves must be at the center of these efforts. But young people thus far have been noticeably absent from the decision-making process, and not for lack of trying.