The Council on Foreign Relations’ Women Around the World blog posted a Q&A with the Council’s Judith Bruce and Dr. Holly Atkinson of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, members of the Girls in Emergencies Consortium. The piece discusses the elevated risks adolescent girls face during humanitarian emergencies and strategies to reduce their vulnerabilities.
In the lead up to World AIDS Day, a new article in The Lancet discusses strategies to target HIV prevention to adolescent girls and young women.
Young women with university degrees are five times more likely to be unemployed than young men in Egypt, according to new Population Council research on gender disparity in access to higher education.
Devex highlighted six recommendations to put girls at the center of development programs from the recent Girl Summit DC.
In a new opinion piece for The New York Times, contributing writer Peggy Orenstein discusses gender norms and sexuality in the context of the US presidential elections.
Population Council's Nigeria country director Sylvia Adebajo spoke with Humanosphere about stigma, key populations and access to HIV services.
A new Maternal Health Series from The Lancet assesses global "maternal health, its epidemiology, successes, and current failings." A World Report article in the Series about challenges for maternal health efforts quotes Charlotte Warren, who leads the Council's maternal health work, and cites findings from our Respectful Maternity Care project in Kenya.
Devex ran an article about "8 insights to end child marriage" featuring Population Council Guatemala's Abriendo Oportunidades program, which provides vulnerable girls with skills and support to improve their lives.
News Deeply's Women & Girls Hub covered the Council's new State-of-the-Art Synethesis on Female Genital Mutiliation and Cutting (FGM/C), featuring commentary from FGM/C Research Program director Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan. The story was cross-published on The Huffington Post.
The Phnom Penh Post featured two articles quoting Population Council expert Ashish Bajracharya, one of which also featured a new contraception study by Council experts.
