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It’s clear that when girls and young women are at the forefront of major social justice movements, the old structures of patriarchy and misogyny can be challenged and hopefully dismantled.
A new Greta Thunberg biopic has drawn criticism from those who don’t see the value in the stories of young lives. But children’s voices matter — and Thunberg’s is potent.
Why do we know the story of Malala, the Pakistani student who survived a brutal attack on her school by the Taliban but not the story of Ahed, a Palestinian girl who stood up to Israeli forces?
A scholar analyzes the history of the Nobel Peace Prize to ask: What difference has it made?
Abduction, sexual violence, early marriage: a few of the choices facing adolescent girls who ought instead to be in school.
This spellbinding documentary tells Malala’s story while shining a light on a global injustice
The awarding of a shared Nobel Peace Prize award to a 17-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, and a 60-year-old Indian man, Kailash Satyarthi, is historic and aimed at conveying multiple messages…
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Flinders University
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Professor, International Education and Director, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, University of Cambridge
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Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies, York University, Canada
