It all started when I hadn’t seen one girl for a couple of months. I was told her boyfriend had broken up with her because she was pregnant. Then the rumors started. “She borrowed money, she is probably going to take an abortion.” “She should
Lack of education about menstruation is one of the many barriers to achieving adequate menstrual hygiene worldwide.
For the longest time, I believed that white women had no body hair. How lucky! No waxing, no shaving = no worries. I was proven wrong when I was 12 years old and shopping for jeans with my father. I went off to the changing
Education helps young people to take decisions about their bodies, health and lives in their own hands. This can, in turn, create a better lifestyle for all.
Kinga Wisniewska from Poland speaks to Girls’ Globe about advocacy, abortion & storytelling.
In Nepal, the level of unmet need for family planning remains high.
Women in rural areas have different lifestyles and challenges than women living in urban communities.
This is the fourth and final blog in a series sharing personal family planning stories – presented by CARE.
Africa is still merely limping towards achieving its agenda…
Mexico has the highest teen pregnancy rate of OECD countries…so what seems to be the problem?
Nearly 80% of Mexican parents avoid talking about sex with their children. But how do we expect young people to know about sex if we are so reluctant to talk to them about it?
On November 7, 2015 I will have had my current contraceptive implant for exactly two years. I love my implant, to say the least! I got my implant put in after I gave birth to my lovely daughter, who is now 2 years old. What
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