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.

UN Launches Updated Guidance on Sexuality Education

By Susan Wood
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February 20, 2018

At a time when extremists in many parts of the world seek to deny young people access to life-saving information and services, the new UN guidelines on sexuality education offer a framework for creating comprehensive, effective, and integrated programs for adolescents.

Keeping UNICEF’s Promise to Girls: 5 Key Actions for New UNICEF Director

By Rachel Jacobson, Helena Minchew
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February 12, 2018

In this challenging environment, strong leadership of the UN organization charged with promoting the human rights and well-being of every child is particularly vital. As Henrietta H. Fore steps into her new role, IWHC offers five priorities for her first term.

8 Ultra-Conservatives Leading Trump’s War on Women

By IWHC Staff
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November 8, 2017

One year after the election, it has become clear that the new presidential Administration staunchly pursues one priority: removing policies that protect the rights of women and girls while ensuring that right-wing ideologues with extreme, retrograde views are positioned to decide on women’s bodies and lives.

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International Day of the Girl: Five Years of Wins for Girls Worldwide

By Helena Minchew
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October 11, 2017

On International Day of the Girl Child, we look back at five years of progress for girls health and rights worldwide.

Stemming Violence Through Education in South Africa

By Jocelyn Berger
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July 18, 2017

Providing comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents can help combat the surge of sexual and gender-based violence in South Africa.