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Gender based violence

Aichatou Moussa, 16 years old at the Centre of Female Victims of Fistula

A New Era for Girls

Taking stock of 25 years of progress

Aichatou Moussa, 16 years old at the Centre of Female Victims of Fistula

25 years of uneven progress: Despite gains in education, world still a violent, highly discriminatory place for girls – UNICEF

Two and a half decades after the historic Beijing women’s conference, violence against women and girls still not only common, but accepted

More than 1,000 children in northeastern Nigeria abducted by Boko Haram since 2013

Four years on from Chibok abduction, UNICEF continues to call for children’s release and immediate end to attacks on schools

Statement on the return of girls abducted from a school in Dapchi by Mohamed Malick Fall, Representative UNICEF Nigeria

Statement on attack against Bursari Government Girls Science Secondary School in northeast Nigeria

Statement from Marie-Pierre Poirier, UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Director

Bad Blood Cover - A Girl Walking away from the camera

"Bad Blood"

Perceptions of children born of conflict-related sexual violence

On 16 April, Binta Mahamadou cradles her twin son and daughter, Mahamadou and Khadidja, inside her family’s tent shelter in the Dar es Salam camp in the Baga Sola area, in the Lake Region.

Beyond Chibok

Over 1.3 million children uprooted by Boko Haram violence