Girls face an education crisis around the world: we must act now.
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted all our lives in many different ways and not least through the impacts it has had on education. At the height of school closures, 1.6 billion children and young people around the world faced disruption to their education. Girls have been disproportionately affected. The pandemic has compounded and exacerbated the many obstacles to getting a quality education that many girls already face - obstacles such as poverty, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation, early marriage and pregnancy, and a lack of access to sexual and reproductive health services.
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