
Gender Equality - 26 May 2023
A Tough Period: Global report
How the global polycrisis is creating a hidden menstrual health crisis, impacting the ability of young people to manage their periods safely and with dignity.
How the global polycrisis is creating a hidden menstrual health crisis, impacting the ability of young people to manage their periods safely and with dignity.
This report demonstrates how current aid and development finance is targeting adolescent girls and their priorities, drawing on research and evidence from aid reports and strategies, and from adolescent girls and young women themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A decade of conflict in Syria has led to a sharp decline in girls’ rights. This research – carried out in Northwest Syria with Women Now for Development – examines the “invisible” toll that years of war, exacerbated by gender inequality, has taken on girls and young women.
COVID-19 is having an effect on all sectors of society across the world. But its impact does not fall equally: the virus itself does not discriminate between rich and poor, young and old, male and female but it does take advantage of pre-existing inequalities which over the last year have come sharply into focus.
Adolescent girls living through these three long-term crises face particular challenges in different locations. The crisis affecting the Lake Chad Basin is one of the most severe humanitarian emergencies in the world, having displaced more than 2.2 million people, half of whom are children.
Despite changes to legislation and increased awareness raising programs to reduce violence against children, the day-to-day experiences of most children across the Pacific and Timor-Leste remains largely unchanged. This report, produced in collaboration with Save the Children Australia, ChildFund Australia and World Vision International, reveals the alarming rates of violence across the Pacific and Timor-Leste, and discusses interventions to end it.
Adolescent girls living through these three long-term crises face particular challenges in different locations. Their lives and experiences also illuminate the risks encountered and the courage shown by girls and young women dealing with similar situations all over the world.
Adolescent girls living through these three long-term crises face particular challenges in different locations. It is of fundamental importance to the security and well-being of adolescent Rohingya girls that their specific vulnerabilities and needs are addressed, and their voices and experiences inform policy and programmatic interventions.