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“There is a crying need for adolescent education across the country."
In an interview, the director-general of India's National AIDS Control
Organisation cites a Population Council survey of 40,000 young people. (offsite
link)
The December 2008 Studies in Family Planning is a
special issue devoted to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in
Sub-Saharan Africa. (more)
"Child marriage is probably the most common regularly occurring, socially
approved human rights abuse in the world today," writes the Council's
Judith Bruce in "Lost Girls." This essay on child marriage was published in
What Matters, a book designed to illustrate some of the world's pressing social
problems with photography and commentary. (offsite link)
The Population Council was recognized as a “champion” of girls
on The Girl Effect Web site, which contains an animated video that explains the importance of investing in girls. (offsite
link)
Findings from the Population Council’s Ishraq program and the Mathare
Youth Sports Association were included in
From the Field: Sport for Development and Peace in Action and
Harnessing the Power of Sport for Development and Peace:
Recommendations to Governments, both distributed at the Sport for
Development and Peace Working Group’s Executive Committee meeting in
Beijing, China, held earlier this month in conjunction with the 2008
Summer Olympics. (more
on using sports as part of a healthy, safe transition to adulthood)
"As the world seeks to fight poverty and respect fundamental human
rights, girls remain nearly invisible to those in positions of power—and
yet it is only through major and sustained improvements in the
conditions of girls that the world will reach its goals."
From
Girls Count: A Global
Investment and Action Agenda,
a newly-released report co-authored by the Council's
Cynthia Lloyd. (offsite PDF)
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