Girls in Africa face significant challenges ensuring that they enjoy the highest attainable standard of their sexual and reproductive health. They experience barriers to accessing relevant sexual ...

The Netflix series "Adolescence" has sparked important conversations about the role of social media in spreading harmful content. It has widened the public's understanding of the rampant uptake of ...

"I wanted to portray this environment in all its complexity" says writer-director Ondřej Provazník about his drama world premiering in Karlovy Vary's main competition. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...

While Sub-Saharan African countries have made progress on gender equality and significant strides in education, girls’ schooling remains a major challenge. Millions of young girls still lack the ...

Eighth grader Anna Pena never imagined she would be standing in front of a crowd, delivering a speech with confidence, but thanks to Girls Inc. of Greater Miami, a nonprofit committed to inspiring ...

This article was originally published in Salud Con Lupa, a partner outlet of Global Voices. The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued three historic decisions on January 20, condemning the ...

Mariama Jeannette, for her part, puts words to a more diffuse but widely shared exhaustion: “My place in society felt like a constant struggle just to be recognised.” In a single sentence, she ...

Czech writer-director Ondřej Provazník was sitting in a bar one evening in 2004 while attending Prague’s renowned film and television school FAMU when he heard a group of women singing in beautiful, ...

They are dressed in extra-large white shirts, black leggings and a rainbow of scarfs. Some of the girls cover their heads with veils, others wear beads, braids or colourful nails. Coming from 19 ...

Malian refugee children attend a school in the Mbera refugee camp, about 40 km (25 miles) from the border with Mali on May 24, 2012 (Joe Penney/Courtesy Reuters). Emerging Voices features ...