Even as women's groups applauded the code as a way to combat the forced marriage of young girls and give wives more economic power, many Mali women opposed it as an attack on traditional values.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

the first was it didn't bother with the established baseline of what percentage of teenage girls had received an unwelcome sexual advance in the day to day actions with people.

第一个问题是,它并没有涉及到底量度的基准,到底这些十几岁的女孩子们,在白天与人正常交往的时候,所受到的性挑逗的比例为多少。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

May Rihani from the Global Advisory Committee of the U.N.girls' initiative gave an example from a "life skills" program in Mali.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

one photograph shows two little girls hugging in the sunlight on the street of an Asian town.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

She went on to become an English teacher, librarian and girls' basketball coach at Jay Allen High School in High Point, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

It says girls between the ages of three and six own an average of about twelve.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Crowds of girls waited for the band's arrival at an airport in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Some people say Barbie is an unhealthy role model for young girls.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

"C'mon girls,grab an oar,let's go!"

VOA: special.2010.03.08

The State Department says programs that include men and boys also are eligible for the awards program, because educating men can be an important part of empowering women and girls.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Clinton says preventing the exploitation and marginalization of girls is no longer an afterthought but a core foreign policy objective of the United States, which is co-sponsoring a Security Council resolution on the issue next week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

On an Africa trip last month, Clinton met with women and girls raped and otherwise abused by soldiers and irregular forces in the conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,the DRC.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Lake is one of 200 scholars, government officials, civil society workers and development partners in Dakar this week for a conference organized by the UN Girls' Education Initiative, an international partnership aimed at achieving gender equality and universal primary school education by 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19