A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has urged adults not to “give up on children.” Thirteen-year-old Dieussika was living peacefully with her family before armed violence and insecurity forced them to flee. “We had to leave our...
She returns, over and over, to a single image: that of a ten-year-old girl – standing on the edge of adolescence, her future uncertain, and her rights still in grave doubt. “Will she be able to stay in school, graduate, and make her way through the world?” Dr. Kanem wonders....
Ndeye Rose Sarr When a girl starts to menstruate, that’s when the problems usually start. From the age of 10, she begins to be looked at as a potential bride for an older man. And if she has not yet undergone FGM, there will be those in her community...
