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Africa: Govts Can Do More to Protect Many Pregnant Students And Mothers Facing Education Barriers
allAfrica, 31 August 2022
Teenage pregnancy has become commonplace in our communities with social determinants of health, such as low education and low income levels of a teen's family, contributing to… Read more »
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Niger: New Niger Order Protects Girls' Rights to Education
HRW, 30 August 2022
Girls in nearly a third of African countries face significant barriers to education when they become pregnant. But this is changing. In 2019, the government of Niger adopted an… Read more »
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Africa: Across Africa, Many Young Mothers Face Education Barriers
HRW, 30 August 2022
African Union Guidance, Policy Reforms Needed to Ensure Girls Continue Education Read more »
Across Africa, Many Young Mothers Face Education Barriers - HRW
A new Human Rights Watch report says that in nearly one-third of African countries, teenage girls who become pregnant face "significant legal and policy barriers" to continuing their formal education. The human rights body said it examined more than 100 laws and policies concerning education, gender equity, and reproductive health, that are detrimental to the education of teenage mothers.
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Civil Society Organisations have said the issue of teenage pregnancy has been neglected but has continued to be a bottleneck to the country's development. Several CSOs gathered to ... Read more »
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Nearly half of all pregnancies, totaling 121 million worldwide each year, are unintended. The State of World Population 2022 report - Seeing the Unseen: The Read more »
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The 2022 State of the World Population Report has revealed that about 60% of unintended pregnancies in Lesotho end in abortion. The report further indicates that despite effo Read more »
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Capital FM reports that teenage pregnancies and child labor have been identified as major impediments to the government's 100% secondary school transition programme Read more »
Nearly a third of all women in developing countries begin childbearing at age 19 and younger, and nearly half of first births to adolescents are to children, or girls aged 17 and younger, UNFPA research shows.
