Empowering Teen Girls Across the Globe
Global leaders are overlooking one of their most valuable weapons in the fight against everything from climate change to economic turmoil. Jordan's Queen Rania on the surprise solution to many of the world's most intractable problems.
UN Photo/Martine Perret
A Congolese woman from Aru, Ituri, knitting in front of her house with a baby on her back, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
UN Photo/Martine Perret
The Berhane Hewan project promotes education and helps prevent girls from becoming child brides by providing an incentive – a $25 sheep – to families who commit to keeping their girls in school. Yedeneku Chanie, 12, is shown receiving her graduation prize.
UNFPA Photo/ Cristina Muller
Schoolgirls in Gaza.
UN Photo/John Isaac
A woman shows a substitute birth certificate she received at the re-launching of the Public Identification Hearings in Côte d'Ivoire. This identification allows people to vote in elections.
UN Photo/Ky Chung
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), along with other UN Agencies and the Government of Burundi, launched the Back to School Program in Ruyigi. The children returned to school after years of conflict and refuge in neighboring countries. The campaign is targeting 440,000 children through the distribution of 350 metric tons of school materials.
UN Photo/Martine Perret
A member of the Nepalese battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti examines a young girl in Port-Au-Prince.
UN Photo/Logan Abassi
Afghan school children attend class with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund, which last year enrolled nearly 340,000 girls in first grade. There are 6.2 million children today studying in primary and secondary schools across Afghanistan.
UN Photo/Fardin Waez
A member of the Chinese Formed Police Unit, of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), teaches a young girl how to write using Chinese characters.
UN Photo/Logan Abassi
School girls attend classes in a school built by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the Wad Sjerofe refugee camp. The school operates two shifts -- one in the morning for girls, and the other in the afternoon for boys, to provide education to the many refugee children in Sudan.
UN Photo/Fred Noy
Golfidan Al Abassy, age 18 of Jordan, speaks about girl friendly spaces for participation, during a panel discussion on Girls Speak Out: Finding Their Own Solution, organized by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, at UN Headquarters in New York.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider
Memory Phiri, age 18, Zambia, speaks about girls and the HIV/AIDS epidemic during a panel discussion on Girls Speak Out: Finding Their Own Solutions, organized by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, at UN Headquarters in New York.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider
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