Empowering Girls and Delaying Child Marriage: New Findings on What Works to Delay Child Marriage in Bangladesh New evidence from the Bangladeshi Association for Life Skills, Income, and Knowledge forAdolescents (BALIKA) project, which seeks to delay child marriage by building girls’ skills for modern livelihoods, provides important insights on what approaches work best to delay child marriage in a country where two in every three girls is married before reaching age 18. Join the Population Council for a presentation of…

The Women’s Studies Program of George Washington University will host Anastasia Gage of Tulane University as part of their 2016 Speaker Series. Dr. Gage will discuss female genital circumcision, its effects, and strategies to prevent and address the practice. Dr. Gage received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and has published extensively on female genital mutilation, child marriage, and other issues relating to the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls. The event will be held at 805 21st Street,…

A Population Commission was established by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 3 (III) of 3 October 1946. In its resolution 49/128 of 19 December 1994, the General Assembly decided that the Commission should be renamed the Commission on Population and Development. In the same resolution, the Assembly decided that it, the Council and the Commission should constitute a three-tiered intergovernmental mechanism that would play the primary role in the follow-up to the implementation of the Programme of…

Join the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, USAID, and the Search Institute for a USAID-hosted presentation highlighting the results of a cross-sectional survey among 10 to 14 year-old girls and boys, and implications of these results on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programming for very young adolescents globally. In partnership with USAID and Search Institute, the Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) at Georgetown University explored the links between individual and social assets -- as measured by the Developmental…

Please join GreeneWorks and the Child Marriage Research Network for a presentation by Dr. Sonalde Desai of the University of Maryland, on Thursday, April 14, 2016, from 10:00 am until 11:30 am, at the Population Council office in Washington, D.C. Dr. Desai will present her talk “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Gender Transformation in India,”examining the discourse around child marriage and the current status of gender norm change in India. Dr. Sonalde Desai is a Professor of Sociology at University of Maryland…

The Global Perspectives on Adolescent Health and Economic Strengthening conferences is a convening of researchers and NGO leaders for sharing research findings that highlight the impact and potential of economic strengthening interventions on behalf of adolescents living in poverty, particularly with reference to adolescents living in sub-Saharan Africa, where over 15 million have lost one or more parents to AIDS.  Additional details available here.

Women Deliver’s conferences are the world’s largest global convenings to focus on the health, rights and well-being of girls and women. The conference, which will be held in Copenhagen from 16–19 May 2016, will be the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health, rights, and wellbeing for more than a decade, and one of the first major global conferences following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The focus of the conference will be on how to implement SDGs as they…

Less than $5 per person spent on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions can save 4 million lives each year. And, yet every day we see 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and child birth. This dynamic breakfast discussion will consist of an expert panel sharing insights on how we can deliver care that is high-quality, respectful and anchored in human rights for all mothers and children. Followed by a Q&A session. Don't forget to join…