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 [...]
What Girls Deliver Brings to Women Deliver: A Q&A with GIRL Center Director Karen Austrian
Karen Austrian, director of the Council’s GIRL Center, shares why she’s looking forward to Women Deliver 2026, what the Girls Deliver community brings to the conference, and how the GIRL Center ensures that [...]
Research and Policy Symposium on Gender Equality in and through Education 2025
The Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution is hosting its annual Research and Policy Symposium on Gender Equality in and through [...]
Celebrating 20 Years of Abriendo Oportunidades: Transforming the Lives of Indigenous Girls in Guatemala
Emerging in the aftermath of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war, Abriendo Oportunidades® (AO®) launched in 2004 as a pilot initiative to address the structural [...]
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 [...]