Girls

Girl Up's teen leaders reveal their (surprising) girl heroes and talk about what feminism means in 2016.

Some of them have never heard of her. But most of them want her to know: Make sure more Liberian girls can stay in school!

Woineshet Zebene Negash of Ethiopia was abducted, raped and forced to sign a marriage contract when she was just 13. Now, 15 years later, her rights have been upheld.

You read the stories in our #15Girls series and posed some really good questions. (Wish we'd thought of them first.) Here are answers from our correspondents.

A law in Sierra Leone bars "visibly pregnant" girls from school — even if the pregnancy is a result of rape. An Amnesty International report calls for a change in this policy.

Do the world's mothers give birth to more boys than girls — or vice versa? What country has the top percentage of women in political power? Test your knowledge on the state of the world's girls.

Inspired by the brave teens profiled in our #15Girls series, our audience shares stories of the hardest thing about being 15.

Some 220 million children under age 5 do not have a birth certificate. A new U.S. law pledges to support efforts to register girls around the world. Should the law mention boys as well?

A harsh encounter in an Indian village inspired Safeena Husain to found a group called Educate Girls. And now she has been honored with a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.