Become a Girls’ Rights Advocate
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End Gender-Based Violence
We are calling on the Government to implement an emergency reform of the RSE curriculum in line with international best practice. Sign the petition.
KnoWhere to Go
TO MARK INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL 2021, WE ARE LAUNCHING OUR ‘KNOWHERE TO GO’ REPORT, DETAILING THE SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MISINFORMATION WHICH YOUNG PEOPLE IN IRELAND ARE NAVIGATING. Our Youth Advisory Panel surveyed over 500 young people on their experiences of sexual and reproductive health misinformation in Ireland. This is what they found. […]
Stop the Setback
For millions of girls, the future is already written. BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. You can stop the setback and help girls rewrite their futures right now. You can keep girls in the classroom, where they belong. You can protect them from the dangers of child marriage and let them decide what […]
Halted Lives: Covid-19 and Girls Education
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen inequalities increase around the world and driven back decades of progress on gender equality & girls’ education. This week, as world leaders gather in London for the Global Partnership for Education’s Global Education summit, we are shining a spotlight on the impacts of the pandemic on girls’ lives and education […]
Free to be online?
ONLINE ABUSE & HARASSMENT IS TAKING ITS TOLL ON GIRLS IN IRELAND AND GLOBALLY. Two thirds of girls surveyed in Ireland, and over half globally, have experienced online violence. This International Day of the Girl, Plan International is shining a spotlight on the abuse and harassment girls and young women are facing online every single […]
Safer Cities Report
The vast majority of women (93%) surveyed feel more vulnerable purely because of their gender. A new national ‘Safe in Ireland’ survey by children’s rights charity, Plan International Ireland, also reveals that almost six in ten women (58%) often or sometimes feel unsafe taking the bus. More than a third of women participating in the […]
We Need to Talk. Period.
Addressing period poverty in Ireland and Uganda In 2018, Plan Ireland’s Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) carried out research to address the ‘toxic trio’ of period injustice in Ireland*: the unaffordability of period products, lack of menstrual education and shame/stigma around periods. Among the 1100 girls surveyed between the ages 12-19+, 50% struggled to afford period […]
