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WMC Women Under Siege
April 19, 2021 | Lillian Perlmutter | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
The Bahamas Faces a Crisis of Underaged Victims of Sexual Assault and Predatory Behavior

Royal Bahamas Police Force report that during the pandemic, more teenage girls have gone missing than in years past, and activists say it is part of a larger pattern of abuse.

WMC Women Under Siege
March 16, 2021 | Ann Deslandes | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Misogyny, Violence against women
International Women’s Day Protesters in Mexico Take Over Central Plaza to Honor Victims of Femicide

The Mexico City government erected barricades around the National Palace of Government as a "wall of peace" intended to protect the historic building ahead of the 8M International Women’s Day protest on March 8, 2021. It did not go well.

WMC FBomb
January 27, 2021 | Kristi Eaton | Girls
30 Girls in 27 Countries Weigh In On Girlhood Today

Former CNN and Washington Post reporter Masuma Ahuja compiled the stories of 30 girls from 27 countries around the world in a scrapbook-style book.

WMC Women Under Siege
November 09, 2020 | Deepa Padmanaban | Gender-based violence, Girls, International
New Study Shows Fewer Female Births in India’s Future

A new study predicts that there will be 6.8 million fewer female births compared to male births in India between 2017 to 2030, due to the country’s strong preference for sons and falling fertility rates.

WMC IDAR/E
October 22, 2020 | Gisele Castro | Girls
Young Latinas Behind Bars: An Alarming Trend We Must Reverse

There has been a 52% increase of Latinas incarcerated nationally

WMC FBomb
October 14, 2020 | Sehar Chowdhry | Girls
Why Indian Schools Need Better Sex Education

Sexist microaggressions perpetuated among peers also contribute to the prevalence of rape culture in Indian high schools.

WMC FBomb
September 28, 2020 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Girls
This New Children’s Book Aims to Address Undercounting of Kids in the 2020 Census

Cravalho stars in a new video storytime session in which she reads WE COUNT! A 2020 Census Counting Book for Young Children (and the Grownups Who Love Them).

WMC FBomb
August 21, 2020 | Catherine K. | Girls
A 10-Year-Old Girl Struggled to Get An Abortion In Brazil

Every hour, four girls under 13 are raped in Brazil.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 07, 2020 | David Njagi | Environment, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
Facing Both Drought and Pandemic, Teen Girls in Kenya’s Slums Are Forced into Early Marriage to Feed Families

As climate change and the pandemic inflate food sales, families in Kenya's slums, already sunken into poverty, are resorting to marrying off their young daughters.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 03, 2020 | Urmi Bhattacheryya | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
As Time Slowed in India’s Justice System, an Eight-Month-Old Rape Victim Grew Up

Cases under India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act are meant to be fast-tracked, but the reality of the judicial system's backlog often means that those cases can drag on for years. One of Delhi's most infamous and horrific rape cases is among them. Amid the long slog of court appearances, postponements — and now, the pandemic — a child victim grows up.

WMC Women Under Siege
July 20, 2020 | Kamala Thiagarajan | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Misogyny, Online harassment, Violence against women
Instagram Scandal in Delhi’s Elite Schools Complicates India’s Reckoning with Sexual Violence

When an Instagram private group of twenty schoolboys from Delhi's elite schools fantasizing and degrading their female classmates went viral, it was supposed to offer a cultural reckoning for India's teens about misogyny and gendered violence. Then, it took a dark turn.

WMC FBomb
June 16, 2020 | Patricia Mupakaviri | Girls
I lived through child marriage. Here’s why it must end.

My parents married me off to my aunt’s husband, much in the way I’d seen other girls my age married off to older men in our Johanne Marange Apostolic Church community at home in Bikita.

WMC Women Under Siege
May 19, 2020 | Urmi Bhattacheryya | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
Raped at eight months old: the child the world forgot

In early 2018, the story of a baby who was raped by a relative sent shockwaves around the world. Two years later, the world has moved on, but she is no closer to receiving justice.

WMC News & Features
April 29, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, Girls, Online harassment, Violence against women
Unexpected pandemic effect: Child abuse proliferates online

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a massive surge in child abuse material being uploaded, according to a story from the Fuller Project for International Reporting co-published with the UK Telegraph.

WMC FBomb
April 16, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Girls, Health
Five Afghan teens designed a ventilator to help treat COVID-19

Recently, five teenagers in Afghanistan who make up an all-female robotics team developed a cost-effective ventilator that runs using the motor of a Toyota Corolla.

WMC Women Under Siege
December 18, 2019 | Melody Chikono | Girls, Health, International
Zimbabwe’s high maternal mortality rate could push a lift on abortion restrictions

Zimbabwe's maternal mortality crisis is pushing the debate on abortion, but the current economic crisis and stigma stand in the way of legalization.

WMC FBomb
October 16, 2019 | Gabriel Leão | Girls, Sports
Meet 13-year-old Japanese race car driver Juju Noda

There has never been a female winner of Formula 1 (F1) racing — the most prestigious category in the motorsport. But 13-year-old Juju Noda wants to change that.

WMC FBomb
October 15, 2019 | Aela Mansmann | Girls, Violence against women
My fight to push my high school to better handle sexual assault allegations

School administrators can choose to be proactive in making their schools safer from harassment and assault, or they can wait for their students to force their hands. Either way, they’d be wise to listen to their students.

WMC FBomb
July 30, 2019 | Grace Bloom | Girls, Violence against women
How the documentary Roll Red Roll connects #MeToo to Steubenville

Roll Red Roll, a new documentary directed by activist Nancy Schwartzman, explores the enduring cultural implications of the Steubenville High School rape case by focusing on the role social media played in it.

WMC FBomb
May 21, 2019 | Amashi de Mel | Feminism, Girls
Normalizing menstruation in the media

In Sri Lanka, as in many other nations, women’s periods are taboo. While families celebrate when a girl bleeds for the first time, as she is seen to have come of age, every month from then on patriarchal values are applied to this natural cycle of life.

WMC FBomb
May 02, 2019 | Gabriel Leão | Girls
Why we need a #GirlsToo movement

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, two out of three girls are harassed and one in four girls are sexually assaulted by the age 18.

WMC FBomb
April 01, 2019 | Leora Tanenbaum | Body image and body standards, Girls
The ongoing problem of slut-shaming and dress-coding

I recently launched the Instagram project @BeingDressCoded to create a space in which we don’t just observe individual stories about dress codes but can look for patterns and learn from a larger, collective story about sexism and sexual objectification.

WMC Women Under Siege
March 05, 2019 | Aisling Walsh | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
41 crosses, 56 lives: The struggle for truth and justice two years on from the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción fire

Two years after the Hogar Virgen de la Asunción orphanage fire in Guatemala, which killed 41 teenaged girls, the truth is still coming to light, and it's far more sinister with every detail.

WMC FBomb
February 11, 2019 | Ngozi Cole | Education, Feminism, Girls
Building Sierra Leone's next generation of feminists

The next generation of feminists are being nurtured in Sierra Leone, and Moiyattu Banya-Keister, a Sierra Leonean educator and feminist, has created a safe space for this to happen: Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone (GESL).

WMC FBomb
November 26, 2018 | Gabriel Leão | Girls, International, Violence against women
An Interview with Stolen Daughters’ writer-producer Karen Edwards

A new documentary, Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram, follows the lives of the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. The film also features interviews with girls who had been previously taken from their homes by the same group.

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