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Latest items for AFE-PRACTICE-1

March 18, 2023, 10:20 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"To cater for the needs of adult women, the adult and Non-Formal Education Program is implemented especially in rural areas where formal schooling for adults may not be easily available. From 5,990,409 adults within the age range of 15–60 years that participated in the program 42.8 per cent are females" (16). [The Fourth Education Sector Development Program] expanded mobile schools and para-boarding schools for primary and secondary education to reach all children in pastoralist and semi-pastoralist communities. Further, boarding schools and tutorial support programmes are put in place to support girls from these areas" (28). "[T]he Gender Equality and Girls Education Strategy provides for detailed strategies to address sexual harassment...more
March 16, 2023, 3:32 a.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1, AFE-PRACTICE-2, AFE-LAW-1

“Above all, women are less likely than men to consider going into business for themselves, and those who do establish a company are more likely to fail than men (see Section 3.2). Currently, only 6 per cent of the overall population of Bulgarian women manage or own their own company. Women, even though they are more highly educated than men, believe that they do not possess the necessary skills to become an entrepreneur (70 per cent), compared with only 64 per cent of men who were interviewed. Women also tend to view entrepreneurship as an inappropriate role for women (34 per cent), contrasting with only 17 per cent of men...more
March 11, 2023, 7:53 a.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"The major challenges for this gap [between secondary and tertiary levels] are attributable to distance between residence and secondary schools and TVETs, socio-cultural barriers for girls’ education like labour and time-intensive domestic chores, harmful traditional practices and trafficking of girls" (15). "[T]he Ministry has developed guidelines on the provision of hostel services for female students. Similarly, through United Nations Joint Program (UNJP) Gender flagship, the Ministry is providing financial assistance to girls from underprivileged families to attend school" (15). "Universities are implementing programs to help female students that have not been able to academically progress. Some government universities have remedial programs that consist of short-term skill trainings in different areas...more
March 8, 2023, 1:43 p.m.
Countries: Montenegro
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"When it comes to the education of members of RE communities... with special emphasis on women and girls belonging to the RE population, asylum seekers, displaced persons, refugees, and internally displaced women and girls, adequate measures are implemented for their enrolment, school retention, and increasing their presence in the education system...In the reporting period, all students of the Roma and Egyptian communities were paid scholarships in the monthly instalments of 150 EUR (1,500 EUR per year), while Roma and Egyptian secondary school students were paid scholarships in the monthly amount of 60 EUR (EUR 600 per year), however regular full-time specialist and master’s degree students were not exempt from tuition...more
Feb. 27, 2023, 8:27 a.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, AFE-PRACTICE-1

“The situation of Romani women, who may be affected by intersectional forms of disadvantage, and may be more vulnerable to violence, is even more worrisome. According to 2014 research by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA), the average situation of Romani women in core areas of social life, such as education, employment, and health, is worse than that of Romani men” (5).
Feb. 24, 2023, 12:54 p.m.
Countries: Nepal
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"The GoN, through national policy, strategy and programs, has been providing quality education for girls, with improvement in the access of girls with disabilities through improved infrastructures and provision of support systems, and special provisions for girls of Dalit, indigenous and disadvantaged groups. Nepal has made significant progress in women’s education by increasing access of girls and women to educational opportunities with enhanced gender parity at all levels. The gender-responsive tools include school outreach program, flexible schooling program, non-formal sessions, scholarships and incentives, genderfriendly infrastructures, increasing the number of female teachers, community learning centres, and other programs. To increase the access to education for the persons with disabilities (PWDs), the...more
Feb. 22, 2023, 12:45 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: CL-PRACTICE-2, AFE-PRACTICE-1, AFE-DATA-1

“The rate of youth who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) is well above the EU average, despite the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and is particularly high among Roma youth (61 percent) especially girls. The majority of NEETs are women and Bulgaria has the highest share of NEETs due to family responsibilities (above 30 percent) among those with basic education in the EU” (9).
Feb. 18, 2023, 11:13 a.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, CL-PRACTICE-1, AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Women in South Korea are highly educated, yet far from equal in the workplace. The country has the highest gender pay gap of any rich country. Most of the housework and childcare in South Korea still falls to women and it is common for women to stop work after having children or for their careers to stagnate" (Para.14).
Feb. 18, 2023, 11:08 a.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Traffickers capitalize on the vulnerabilities created by poverty, minimal education levels, unemployment, and a general lack of economic opportunities. They often lure their victims by promising employment and education opportunities. Within Malawi, sexually exploited girls and women may be made to work at local bars and rest houses where they are coerced to have sex with customers. Women and girls may also be trafficked by truck drivers along major truck routes who promise them jobs, marriage, and education but the end destination for them is not employment but a life of sexual abuse and exploitation. Such criminal activity generates high profits for perpetrators and comes with a low risk of...more
Feb. 18, 2023, 9:55 a.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"During those two weeks, she researched surgical abortion and it began to terrify her — and she changed her mind about having one. She is also no longer planning to attend graduate school. She thinks about her decision every day and the limited options she faced in those early, chaotic days as she struggled to process the news. " (Para.16).
Feb. 18, 2023, 9:51 a.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"According to the ruling, the 13 plaintiffs took entrance examinations at the university between 2011 and 2018 but were not accepted. During the course of the lawsuit, it was found two would have passed the first exam had the results not been rigged" (Para.7). "The university later accepted 48 female candidates who should have been admitted earlier for 2017 and 2018 had it not manipulated the exam results" (Para.8). "In 2018, a nationwide survey by the education ministry, after similar manipulation was first reported at Tokyo Medical University, found that nine medical schools had manipulated their entrance exams to favor male applicants and relatives of alumni" (Para.9).
Feb. 13, 2023, 11:08 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Hidden away in a residential neighbourhood is one of Afghanistan's new "secret" schools - a small but powerful act of defiance against the Taliban" (Para.1) "In all but a handful of provinces in the country, girls' secondary schools have been ordered to remain closed by the Taliban" (Para.4). "It's been two months now, and still schools haven't reopened," one 19-year-old in the makeshift classroom told us" (Para.9). "Primary schools for girls have reopened under the Taliban, and have in fact seen a rise in attendance following the improvement in security in rural parts of the country, but it's not clear when or if older girls will be allowed back into...more
Feb. 13, 2023, 11:07 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Hidden away in a residential neighbourhood is one of Afghanistan's new "secret" schools - a small but powerful act of defiance against the Taliban" (Para.1) "In all but a handful of provinces in the country, girls' secondary schools have been ordered to remain closed by the Taliban" (Para.4). "It's been two months now, and still schools haven't reopened," one 19-year-old in the makeshift classroom told us" (Para.9). "Primary schools for girls have reopened under the Taliban, and have in fact seen a rise in attendance following the improvement in security in rural parts of the country, but it's not clear when or if older girls will be allowed back into...more
Feb. 13, 2023, 10:57 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Girls have pretty much been unable to attend secondary school in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power nine months ago" (Para.1) "And if the Taliban do ultimately allow girls to attend secondary school girls, they are likely to forced to don a face veil and will be carefully watched by teachers appointed by local Taliban officials to ensure they strictly adhere to their restrictive uniforms.6. That has been the case in some secondary schools in the northern province of Balkh, according to a statement by Human Rights Watch. It is one of the few provinces where Afghan girls do go to secondary school, owing in part to strong pressure by...more
Feb. 6, 2023, 12:07 p.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women]…notes with concern…[t]he insufficient information on the measures taken to ensure girls' access to primary and secondary education and to address the causes of school dropout among girls [and] [t]he persisting gender stereotypes in the education system, in the absence of education of gender equality and on sexual and reproductive health and rights" (9-10). "The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women] recommends that the State party…[e]nsure girls' enrolment in primary and secondary education, including through information campaigns targeting parents and religious and community leaders on the importance of education for girls at all levels...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:14 p.m.
Countries: Namibia
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

The state party continues to prioritise the education sector. Over 195 994 learners in secondary school, grades 8-12 were taught career guidance related topics in Life Skills in 2015. In 2016 this number was 200,695 with 48% being female and in 2017 the number increased to 202,252 with 52% being female. The Life Skills curriculum has been reviewed and implementation of the Junior Secondary curriculum commenced in 2017. (13)(NF - CODER COMMENT - The role of government in the education sector and their attempts to increase enrollment of women and girls implies the women do have the legal right to education, but there may be barriers that are preventing their...more
Feb. 2, 2023, 1:11 p.m.
Countries: Austria
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to improve its institutional and policy framework aimed at accelerating the elimination of discrimination against women and promoting gender equality, such as the adoption of the following:...Austrian university development plan for the period 2016–2021, which includes measures to increase the representation of women in all areas, including in research, teaching and academic administration, and at all levels of the hierarchy" (2)."The Committee further welcomes the amendment to the law on universities, in 2015, which increased from 40 to 50 per cent the quota for women in university collegial bodies. In line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and recalling its general recommendation...more
Jan. 20, 2023, 11:54 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"In defiance of the Taliban's ban on education for girls, locals in one province of Afghanistan have started reopening high schools" (para 1). "A local Taliban official also confirmed the schools had reopened. 'The administrators of these schools asked the students to come back to school and the girls' high schools are open,' Mawlawi Khaliqyar Ahmadzai, head of Paktia's culture and information department, said in a video statement" (para 4-5). High schools are segregated by gender (MV-coder comment). "Upon returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban shut the country's secondary schools for girls but promised to reopen them without giving a specific date" (para 8).
Jan. 19, 2023, 10:58 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Girls protested in the streets in the center of Paktia to protest the closing of their schools" (1).
Jan. 19, 2023, 10:27 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Those who died in the attack were mostly Hazara women aged between 18 to 24 years who had been preparing for an exam" (para 3). "Waheda, a 19-year-old student who was injured in Friday’s attack, said: 'My friends and I arrived at 6.30 am to prepare for the test which is usually held on Fridays. Just after 7 am I heard the bomber open fire and the sound of an explosion. We wanted to run but everything was destroyed so I hid under the chairs. When I heard the explosion turn louder, I ran towards the exit. While running away, I saw bodies covered in blood, one of them had...more
Jan. 18, 2023, 11:12 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"A year after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, teenage girls are still barred from school" (para 8). "[F]our girls’ schools in Gardez, the provincial capital, and one in the Samkani district began operating without formal permission from the Taliban education ministry. On Saturday, all five schools were once again closed by authorities" (para 11).
Jan. 13, 2023, 8:33 p.m.
Countries: Australia
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"[E]ducation on consent will become mandatory in every Australian school after a landmark ruling by state and federal ministers... Teachers will give children from prep to Year 12 age-appropriate lessons about the importance of gaining permission, power imbalances and coercion" (para 26-28).
Jan. 13, 2023, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"In June, the Security Council’s 1988 Sanctions Committee removed two Taliban education ministers from the travel ban exemption list over their continued closure of girls secondary schools." (para 2). ""Protecting and promoting their rights continues to be the most important issue for Afghan women, over a year since the Taliban’s takeover. The rollback of women’s human rights is visible in nearly every facet of public and private life and has resulted in a pervasive sense of fear. Only half of the women surveyed, stated that they could leave their homes with some sense of safety, which seems to be directly influenced by the restrictiveness with which the Taliban implemented its...more
Jan. 13, 2023, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: LDS-LAW-1, AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Girls also continue to be blocked from entering secondary schools, which have been closed to them across most of the country since the Taliban regained power in August last year." (para 6).
Jan. 12, 2023, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Mozambique
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"She was married at 14, and had to leave school because of her new circumstances" (para 1) (NF - CODER COMMENT - With this personal anecdote, this goes to show that many girls are forced to marry, which in turn, forces girls to drop out of school).
Jan. 12, 2023, 8:01 p.m.
Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"They were prevented from owning property, accessing health care, directly receiving salaries, or attending formal education….'It was hard because there was no education, no protection for children...'" (para 4-5). "Of course, no policy can force attitudes to change, so machismo still remains an issue in 2021" (para 15)(NF - CODER COMMENT - The implication that machismo is still an issue can mean a variety of things. It can include things such as domestic violence all the way up to sexual harassment in public and work spaces).
Jan. 7, 2023, 10:02 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"Hasina cannot send her two daughters to school, because they are teenagers and high school is banned for girls in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan But she cannot take them out of the country to finish their education because she is a divorced single mother, and women are barred from long-distance travel without a male 'guardian' to escort them" (para 1-2). "Students who have won scholarships abroad are consumed with anxiety about whether they will be allowed to board their flights without a mahram" (para 17).
Jan. 7, 2023, 11:15 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"The Taliban official says that in places where the ban [on secondary education for girls] is in effect, girls and their families can pay to attend privately run tutoring centers, where students typically go to improve their grades" (para 22). "In Kabul, some of the luckiest girls end up in a basement on a quiet Kabul street, where 34-year-old Zainab set up a tutoring center in April to keep girls learning. She conducts online language lessons for Afghans abroad to raise money and is seeking external sponsors as well. 'We cover secondary school subjects. We even hired teachers who lost their jobs. It's all free. I don't [want] the girls...more
Jan. 7, 2023, 11:13 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"The Taliban's ban [on education for girls] is just the latest barrier to [14-year-old student] Leila's education. During the pandemic, Leila missed a year of schooling. Last year, after she returned, tragedy struck: militants targeted teenage girls at her school, Sayed al-Shuhada, as they were streaming out of the gate, detonating a vehicle rigged with explosives that killed more than 80. Leila was still inside her school when the attack occurred, but she lost many of her friends. And yet she returned three days later, expecting to resume studies. The school hadn't even reopened. Weeks later, her parents pulled her out, fearing another attack. Then, the Taliban swept to power"...more
Jan. 7, 2023, 11:10 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-1

"In Kabul, the rural province of Parwan and the western city of Herat alike, women are running secret schools like Nazanin's. They're also finding loopholes around the Taliban's ban on girls attending secondary education, by operating girls madrassas — religious schools — or tutoring centers that essentially replicate high school courses" (para 7). "After the Taliban reneged on their promise to let girls return to secondary school in late March, Nazanin decided to open her small school. Those close to her pitched in. She described her thinking at the time: 'If we follow the Taliban, we'd just stay home. No. We have to do something.' Her family helped transform a...more