Being different often means to be singled out from others in society, more often than not for differential and unequal treatment. Minorities are, in other words, often objects of collective discrimination, while there is ongoing talk of multiculturalism as well as its failure and crisis. We want to critically dissect such discourses.
My name is Cheptock, Betty. I’m from Uganda. I’m from an Eastern part of the country called Captura. I’ll be 28 in November. My parents told me that when I
Many blogs and articles were written/ posted on this topic yesterday (I have listed a few of our favorites below), but our very own Adolescent Girls' Advocacy and Leadership Initiative
Recently, the Girl Up team interviewed Denise Dunning, Director of the Adolescent Girls' Advocacy and Leadership Initiative (AGALI), and Emily Teitsworth, AGALI Program Coordinator. They spoke the initiative, it’s programs,
Girl Hub, a joint venture between the Nike Foundation and DFID, describe the “girl effect” as ‘the positive effect that empowering girls can have on their communities and countries’, and
This report by Restless Development-Tanzania represents the end results of a fact based Monitoring and Evaluation exercise carried out entirely by young community volunteers with young people in the regions
“‘Dream on.’ That was how everyone responded to our ideas in those days,” says Fatou Sidibé, head of the Division for Special Education at the Ministry of Education in Niger.
On July 11th at the London Family Planning Summit Restless Development, Save the Children, IPPF and Nike Foundation showed world leaders the importance of youth involvement in decision making on,
As long as we still have a socio-economic divide, we will continue to have the digital divide amongst young people. What matters the most is that we don’t create a
“At mega-events, young people come second, young people's rights are trampled on, young people are targeted,” John Connor of Aston Mansfield argued at the “Sport Mega-Events and the Crisis of
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth face tremendous and unique challenges in societies that privilege heterosexuality while oppressing other sexual identities and expressions. to identify (or to be
