Cape Verde Girl
Africa
1111--06/30/04 Sudan Girl Receiving Help from Doctors Without Borders; Washington, DC ... 1111-- Students and School Community Construct Girls' Hostel in Tanzania ... [Read More]
Millennium Challenge Corporation Announces Grant for Burkina Faso - US Department of State
· By constructing separate girls’ and boys’ bathrooms in the schools, institutionalizing female mentoring programs, conducting social awareness campaigns and offering financial merit rewards to the best female teachers in the targeted region, this program will encourage girls to attend schools, mitigate factors that presently deter girls’ school attendance, and provide needed reassurance to parents that their daughters will be best-served attending school. ... · By providing take-home dry rations to girls who maintain a 90% school attendance rate, this program provides an incentive for parents to keep their girls in school. ... [Read More]
Country Narratives -- Countries H through P
Nepal is a source country of women and girls trafficked primarily to India for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and debt bondage. Nepali women traveling to the Middle East in search of work have been put into situations of coerced labor and other slave-like conditions. Internal trafficking also takes place in Nepal. Women are trafficked from rural areas to cities for commercial sexual exploitation and children are placed into debt bondage or other exploitative child labor by their impoverished parents. An ongoing Maoist insurgency has used violence to wrest control of remote areas from the government; many trafficking victims originate from those areas. The insurgents have forcibly conscripted girls and boys. ... [Read More]
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