Shannon and the Girl Up girls are just the type of young women who will help win the future through innovative and collaborative foreign policy and aid.
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And as the mother of two young girls -- who are doing just fine, by the way -- (laughter) -- it's an issue that is particularly near and dear to my heart, as I have spoken about.
This is the practice where some young British girls are bullied and threatened into marrying someone they don't want to.
Even though Pollak's study was conducted on young girls, the findings are relevant for older children and even adults, Dr. Strathearn says.
Strong role models at home and in the local community are vital to showing girls and young women that they are capable of achieving great things.
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She was also recently selected as a Teen Advisor to Girl Up, a United Nations Foundation campaign that is committed to ensuring that girls and young women around the world are educated, healthy, safe, counted and positioned to be the next generation of leaders.
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"We don't know yet the extent of how many girls and young women are being exploited by gangs, " added ACC Fish.
Alyas Karmani, director of Street - a Bradford-based group working with vulnerable young people - told the Home Affairs Committee young Asian girls were more vulnerable to groomers because "they are unlikely to talk about it".
Ms. MINES: The scary thing is that the TV is basically raising a lot of these girls, and they are becoming obsessed with this ideology of looking like the young women in the videos and so that they can do the dances and so that they can get these guys.
"The girls are right on in terms of the trends of young, sexy, body conscious, " said Fink.
On the contrary- the leaders in this movement are young, mainly disadvantaged girls.
Young girls from poor rural households are the least likely of any social group to be in school or to ever gain access to education.
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And of course having role models like Sandberg and Mayer for young girls who are considering going into the STEM field can often be a very powerful thing.
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Despite the coordinated efforts of the Member States of UNESCO, millions of young girls and boys are still deprived of basic rights, such as access to education, basic quality of life and dignified work, preventing them from participating fully in their society.
And for those of you who don't know, these girls are a part of our young women who participate in the White House Leadership and Mentoring Program.
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Education serves to change the lives of girls and young women for future generations too - educated girls are more likely, as mothers, to send their own girls to school.
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Still the role models presented to young girls and women through fictional or historical characters are more often than not those who come to a bad end if they are not self-sacrificing, or are rewarded (with the man, usually) if they do put their own aspirations aside.
While there are no official figures on such trafficking, activists say thousands of young Bangladeshi girls and boys are smuggled to India and the Gulf countries every year.
It begins in the primary and secondary grades, where the acumen for and interest in the scientific method and mathematical skills are most easily developed in our young boys and girls.
The conservative Family Research Council voiced concerns about the order, saying it removed the common-sense safeguards that are provided when parents and medical professionals are involved in young girls' care.
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"However, from what is available it is clear that girls and young women are at specific risk during periods of economic uncertainty and stress, " the report stated.
Sebelius said some girls as young as 11 are physically capable of bearing children but shouldn't be able to buy the pregnancy-preventing pill on their own.
Today, 75 percent of HIV infections among 15- to 24-year-olds in sub-Saharan Africa are young women, and up to one-half of girls in developing countries become mothers before the age of 18, largely due to lack of access to modern family planning options.
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