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Girls Set For Cricket Action

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

The first-ever Gambia U-15 cricket female side is warming up for their debut appearance when they host the ICC U-15 tournament for North/West Africa...

The Girls At The Intersections

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

You see them everywhere, looking smart and businesslike. They are the young female police officers. In almost all the intersections in the Greater...

Rape: A Cause For Concern

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The issue of rape in our society is now becoming a cause for concern. Hardly a week past by without newspapers or television reporting a rape case. ...

Fawegam Hold “Take Your Daughter to Work” Program

Picture: Oley Cham-Jallow (1) & Adama Jallow (2)

Friday, June 05, 2009

FAWEGAM, a non-government organisation that has been known for empowering and developing girls’ education, recently organised a program called “Take...

VOX POP On The International Women’s Day

Picture: Aji Amie Jatta (1), Mary Kanu Thomas (2), Aji Louise Jobe (3) & Aji Salka Faal (4)

Friday, May 15, 2009

The Gambian women last Saturday came together at the July 22nd for a MarchPass in commemoration of International Women’s Day celebration. This is a...

Violence Against Women is Discriminatory - APGWA Executive Director

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Mrs Ajaratou Binta Jammeh Sidibeh, the Executive Director of the Association for Promotion of Girls and Women Advancement (APGWA) has said that...

Education for Girls and Women

Friday, February 06, 2009

“In the developing world today, many more boys become literate than girls. In some countries, twice as many boys as girls are brought to health...

Man arrested for the murder of two girls in Sixth of October

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=18216

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

CAIRO: Police arrested Mohamed Hafez Abdel-Samei on Tuesday for the murders of Heba El-Akkad and Nadine Khaled in Sheikh Zayed’s Al-Nada compound...

NIGERIA: Early marriage adds to socioeconomic woes, NGOs say

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81667

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

KANO Wednesday, November 26, 2008 (IRIN) - Just 26 percent of girls in northern Nigeria make it beyond primary school, according to the UN Children’s...

SOMALIA: "One message" on FGM/C in Somaliland

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81261

Saturday, November 22, 2008

HARGEISA Monday, November 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Hawa* is determined her young daughter will not undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), which...