Child marriage laws: What works, what doesn’t…what’s next?
Register What does the evidence on minimum age of marriage laws mean for advocacy on child, early, and forced marriage and unions (CEFMU)? Join [...]
Early Childbearing and Child Marriage: An Update
Child marriage and early childbearing—marriages and births to girls below age 18—are serious threats to girls’ wellbeing everywhere. The mere existence of child [...]
Child Marriage, Climate Change, and Local-Level Variability
As we learn more about climate change, we find increasing evidence of the divergent social impact of climate-related events. The risk of child [...]
Calling Attention to Experiences of Care for Hospitalized Newborns and Young Children to Improve Newborn and Child Survival
Over the last decade, progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reduce maternal deaths, stillbirths, and newborn deaths has stagnated. Recent [...]
Power, Voice, and Agency: Empowering Adolescent Girls and Young Women through Multiple Interventions for Evidence-Informed Contraceptive Decisions
This blog is part of a series in partnership with Population Council, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), and Population Services International (PSI), to recognize World [...]
The Girl Agenda Cannot Wait! Collaboration and Multi-Dimensional Investments Needed for Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment
The call to invest in girls’ and women’ empowerment during the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) is [...]
Supporting Women in their Public Health Careers
Globally, women represented approximately 33% of researchers between 2015 and 2018 (UNESCO Science Report 2021, Fig. 3.4) and while there have been strides [...]
Fulfilling the Radical Power of Education
The radical power and potential of education must be both leveraged and revitalized in the face not only of a global learning crisis [...]