(VIDEO) Girls Speak … Will We Listen?

By: Thursday July 15, 2010 7:07 am

Girls Speak, the latest report in the Girls Count series commissioned by the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, allows us to hear directly from adolescent girls as they share their hopes, fears and dreams for the future.

Written by Yolanda Johnny Taylor for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Girl Up: Girls Lifting Up Girls

By: Friday June 11, 2010 7:00 am
(Promoted by jasonrosenbaum - Inspiring)

Adolescent girls around the world have some things in common especially in regard to their physical development. But for too many girls living in poverty physical changes are where the similarities to their wealthier counterparts stop. Girl Up aims to change all of that.

Written by Amie Newman for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

On Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day, Awareness Of, Action On Domestic Epidemic Still Lacking

By: Wednesday March 10, 2010 6:33 am

I am deeply struck by the continued blindness to the deeper structural challenges faced by women affected and infected with HIV in the United States, a blindness that makes progress virtually impossible.

Written by Brook Kelly for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

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