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Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a hunting reserve for the Dubai royal family

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The Plan International Pakistan released a report on Thursday showing a slight improvement in the state of girls’ education in the country.

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Pakist­an’s educat­ion system is in such dire strait­s becaus­e no proper checks and balanc­es have been put in place

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An estimated 150 families from the Maasai community spent their nights in the cold after their homes were demolished in Nairobi's Karen area.

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The amount will be given to four non-govern­ment organi­sation­s

Congratulations to these 4 organizations promoting education for girls in Pakistan!

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Since its inception, Pakistan has been facing various issues which have resulted in constant instability of the socio-economic development of the country. If we conduct an in-depth study of the reason ...

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Technically, we need to redesign schooling, learning and teaching which are compatible with the 21stcentury. This plan will help us reach a fresh future, instead of dragging us back to the stale and sorry past.

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There has been substantial progress towards gender equity in basic education, but large gaps remain at the secondary level, writes Quentin Woden.

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Always speak your own languages if you can. It’s hopeful. I want to encourage all of you to continue to learn, continue to teach other and to really put your life into it, speaking.

- Forget Ice Water, Take the Indigenous Language Challenge Instead (via globalvoices)

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Government has been commended for introducing school girls to the films of successful female athletes to encourage girls to enroll and stay in school, and for the promotion of girls clubs which address issues on teenage pregnancy.

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Students at the Vhuerdiah village in Babuganj, Barishal. Mahfuzul Hasan Bhuiyan/World Bank A number of incidents this year have highlighted the challenging circumstances in which girls attend school in developing countries. Nearly 300 adolescent school girls were abducted from their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria by the Boko Haram group. Frequent attacks on schools have forced many parents to withdraw girls from education. Development practitioners and donors are more convinced than ever that increasing opportunities, skills and resources for women and girls will lead to measurable improvements across a wide range of development indicators for all people, irrespective of their gender. The running assumption is that supporting adolescent girls is one of the most effective strategies available to achieve wider developmental outcomes. The World Bank’s report, Voice and Agency: Empowering women and girls for shared prosperity launched two weeks ago, highlighted the close relation between female education and child marriage, noting, in particular, that girls with no education were six times more likely to enter into a child marriage compared to girls with high school education in 18 of the 20 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriages. However, the case of Bangladesh shows that improvements in female education are not a sufficient condition for reducing child marriage among women: two out of every three girls marry before age 18 ​in spite of a big jump in secondary school enrollment and a sharp decline in fertility rate​ in the last twenty years​.

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Last week I travelled to Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Northeastern Borno State for 1 GAME Campaign, the organization I launched to improve access to school for thousands of girls who miss out on education in one of the country’s most populous and educationally underdeveloped states.

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FULANI leaders in the country have urged the relevant authorities to recognise the existence of their numerous communities across the nation and help...

"Livestock development and empowerment of pastoralists was plagued by a number of problems which include diminishing availability of land space for grazing, incessant conflicts leading to displacement, loss of lives and properties, skewed agricultural development policies, as well as lack of education and relevant training among others."

"To address these challenges...the provision of education and training was paramount for nomadic pastoralists."

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An innovative way to prevent child marriage and keep girls in school.

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A video encouraging education as an alternative rite of passage over female genital mutilation in a Maasai tribe. 

via ASK Campaign

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The fact that students’ learning outcomes are mostly not up to the mark can only mean that something is amiss in teacher’s performance because it is reflected in the student’s learning.

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Our decisi­on-makers need to give seriou­s attent­ion to domest­ic causes of deteri­oratin­g circum­stance­s for gender parity­ in Pakistan and throughout the world.

"The Global Gender Gap Index aims to measure significant aspects of gender equality by considering relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics."