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July 2016
Women in Leadership: Empowering Girls Through Education and Training
This inaugural event will offer participants an opportunity to share and discuss ideas, experiences, and research findings that explore ways to promote sustainable collaborations, provide or strengthen extracurricular activities that inspire innovation and creativity, and foster a climate of confidence in the abilities of young African girls to actively contribute to an economically sustainable global society. Presentation topics include girls’ education and training, leadership and engagement, enterprise development, health, and social welfare. The event will be held at the Great…
Find out more »21st International AIDS Conference
The International AIDS Conference is the largest conference on any global health or development issues in the world. First convened during the peak of the epidemic in 1985, it continues of to provide a unique forum for the intersection of science, advocacy, and human rights. The conference will be held at the Durban International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa between July 18-22, 2016. Learn more at www.aids2016.org/.
Find out more »September 2016
Let’s Talk about Sex: Sexuality and the Embodied Empowerment of Girls
Please join GreeneWorks, American Jewish World Service, CARE, and the International Women’s Health Coalition on September 7 at the 2016 AWID Forum at the Costa do Sauipe in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil for an interactive, "get out of your seat" theater performance and learning session about the possibilities for the embodied empowerment of girls through exploring sexuality, gender, power, and pleasure in their lives. The event will feature a performance by BodyWise Dance. Please click here to learn more about…
Find out more »13th AWID International Forum
AWID's 13th International Forum will take place at the Costa de Sauípe Resort in Bahia, Brazil from September 8-11. The 2016 Forum is a process and space for re-imagining and co-creating a future free from oppression, injustice, war, and violence and a platform for developing concrete strategies for realizing such a future. The goals of the Forum are as follows: To celebrate the gains of the past twenty years by diverse social movements and critically analyze the lessons we can carry forward.…
Find out more »#GirlsGovern Town Hall
#GirlsGovern is a campaign that enables all girls to use their voice to highlight the issues that are most important to them.Adolescent girls and young women can participate by voting on which issues affect them the most and by making a video about the issue that is most important to them as an individual. The culminating event of the #GirlsGovern program, the Town Hall, will gather over four hundred girls from Washington, D.C. and neighboring communities to discuss the issues…
Find out more »2016 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit
The Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit will take place from September 28 to September 30, 2016, in Washington, DC. As a go-to youth development event, the Summit convenes more than 450 leading global companies, donors, implementers, policymakers, educators, researchers, and youth leaders to exchange knowledge that results in changed practices and improved programming, policy, and performance. The 2016 Summit theme is: Turning Point: How Do We Achieve Results & Scale in the Next Decade? Demand-driven topics at the Summit will…
Find out more »Retooling Adolescent Girl Programming: Resources for Intentional Program Design
In many parts of the world when girls reach puberty, they are pulled from school, socially isolated, forced to marry and bear children early, and are at greater risk of sexual violence and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. While programs exist to reduce these vulnerabilities, they often miss their mark--they either fail to reach the most vulnerable girls, reach them too late, or do not address the life circumstances that put them at risk. This event hosted by the Population…
Find out more »October 2016
72 Hours and Counting: Why Every Hour Matters for Post-Rape Care
Join Together for Girls and their partners for an Every Hour Matters campaign event featuring an engaging discussion with leading experts. Every Hour Matters is a global advocacy campaign launched by Together for Girls in March 2016 with a call to action to address the critical need for post-rape care. The event on International Day of the Girl will include a moderated panel discussion between a variety of actors who are all dedicated to ensuring survivors’ access to and awareness of…
Find out more »Girl Summit DC 2016: Keeping Our Promises to Adolescent Girls
Join leading experts from the International Women's Health Coalition, Center for Global Development, Population Council, International Center for Research on Women, United Nations Population Fund, CARE, and other organizations for a dialogue on how current programs and policies affect the lives of adolescent girls around the world. They will look at how the global community can build on recent groundbreaking work, and discuss what the next U.S. administration needs to do. Additional information available here.
Find out more »Capturing Girls’ Voice: Channeling Girls’ Recommendations into Global Advocacy and National Level Change
The 5th Virtual Conference on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in WASH in Schools (WinS) is organized by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and UNICEF and will focus on the voices of girls’ captured globally to guide action and political commitments. This year’s presentations come from a range of countries, including Nepal, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan, and Kenya! They will highlight examples of directly capturing girls’ voices on MHM barriers and proposed solutions, initiatives that translate girls’ expressed needs…
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