Calling on Africa to ensure girls go back to school post-COVID-19 closures
With schools reopening across Africa after the COVID-19 related closures, the African Union International Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Education in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) launched #AfricaEducatesHer, a campaign to bring awareness to the issues hindering girls and women from accessing education during the COVID-19 pandemic and a rallying call to take positive action now to guarantee girls returning to school as they gradually reopen. October 16, 2020 by Rita Bissoonauth, African Union International Center for Girls and Women’s Education in Africa
Addressing the impact of covid-19 on girls and women’s education in Africa
Article originally published by Global Partnership For Education (GPE) Girls and women face gender-based violence in schools and university, but a considerable number also find school to be a safe haven…
No future for our vulnerable girls unless guns are silenced
Following the African Union Summit under the theme "Silencing our guns", what should African countries do to ensure the most vulnerable to violence, women and girls, get the support they need to thrive?