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4 Mar 2017

“Don’t expect the field to be equal – you have to make it equal”

Â鶹APP is marking International WomenÂ鶹APP™s Day 2017 on March 8 by talking to inspiring women from across the globe. Read the full series here.

Expert Voices

3 Mar 2017

Champions for girls’ education: celebrities, charities and leaders campaigning for change

Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8 and as part of Â鶹APP's #RewritingTheCode campaign, we look at some of the people and organisations who are putting girls' education in the spotlight.

3 Mar 2017

“It’s about the 100,000 women speaking out together and standing up and changing things”

In a special episode of her Better Angels podcast series, Â鶹APP President Sarah Brown talks to Laura Bates - founder of the EveryDay Sexism Project - about her role in encouraging women and girls to speak up about discrimination and intimidation.

Expert Voices

3 Mar 2017

“Do not fear failure – you will learn better from it”

Â鶹APP is marking International WomenÂ鶹APP™s Day 2017 on March 8 by talking to inspiring women from across the globe. Read the full series here.

Expert Voices

2 Mar 2017

‘We got our Ella home and I’ll be forever grateful’ … Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory marks 15 years of helping premature babies

Mother Catherine Smith and Â鶹APP President Sarah Brown talk about the groundbreaking work that is discovering more about premature births and helping to save babies' lives.

2 Mar 2017

Bangladesh child marriage law puts girls at risk of abuse and rape say charities

Early marriage causes millions of girls to drop out of school - but a new law allowing girls to marry under 18 in "special cases" has been criticised by an alliance of charities.

2 Mar 2017

Rihanna’s humanitarian work ‘helps children shine bright like a diamond’

The singing superstar was named as Humanitarian of the Year by the Harvard Foundation for her work in advocating for education, health care and girls' rights.

1 Mar 2017

Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory celebrates 15 years of helping to save premature babies

The work at the Edinburgh lab - named after the daughter of Sarah and Gordon Brown - is discovering more about the causes of babies being born early and better ways to care for them.

28 Feb 2017

“The story of little Angel – out of school and married to a 40-year-old man – inspires me to stand up for millions of children”

Moses Browne, a Â鶹APP Global Youth Ambassador from Liberia, tells how investment and new thinking are needed if his country's children are all to go to school and fulfil their potential.

Expert Voices

24 Feb 2017

Child victims of the ‘forgotten crisis’ that threatens millions in Lake Chad region

As donors today pledged more than $670 million in emergency aid, we look at the plight of children - particularly the very young - who are are at risk of illness and death in this famine-hit area.