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Primary education is free for all children in Bangladesh, from grades one through five. By law, children between the ages of six and ten must attend school. However, the quality of education remains a barrier for education levels.

January,14 Kanaighat,Sylhet.

© Abu Rasel Rony

Celebrating the World Photography Day - 19th Aug, 2016

 

Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.

Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.

  

Photograph by Firoz Ahmad

May 2017. Dhanmondi Lake, Dhaka.

© Abu Rasel Rony

January,14 Kanaighat,Sylhet.

© Abu Rasel Rony

The PM talks with Bono on the way to an Education for All event at the UN, 25 September 2008; Crown copyright.

May 2017. Dhanmondi Lake, Dhaka.

© Abu Rasel Rony

The innocent smile of children brightens my photo shoot day.Shot with Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* FE 55mm F1.8 ZA at village Silothi,Partapgarh in India..

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An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.

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Photo: Firoz Ahmad

Women of the world want and deserve an equal future free from stigma, stereotypes and violence; a future that’s sustainable, peaceful, with equal rights and opportunities for all. To get them there, the world needs women at every table where decisions are being made.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

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Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.

 

Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.

 

In recent years, the voices of survivors and activists, through campaigns such as #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc and others, have reached a crescendo that cannot be silenced any more.

 

Join the UNiTE Campaign’s Orange the World: #HearMeToo! Share your photos, messages and videos showing how you are participating in the campaign at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.

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International Day of the Girl Child 2016

Today is International Day of the Girl Child, 2016. International Day of the Girl Child is an international observance day declared by the United Nations. The observation supports more opportunity for girls, and increases awareness of inequality faced by girls worldwide based upon their gender. This inequality includes areas such as access to education, nutrition, legal rights, medical care, working space and protection from discrimination, violence and child marriage.

Photo: Firoz Ahmad, Location: Smart Academy for Healthcare supported by Tech Mahindra Foundation. (www.facebook.com/TechMahindraFoundation/?fref=ts)

An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate girls and women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

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An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

www.picturesmagic.com/

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Kamla, a grandmother, enjoys the rain and the mist sitting in the verandah of her home in Mandu. The wall behind her says "School chalein hum" (Let's go to school) which is the slogan of the "Education for all" campaign of the government.

 

Kamla was quiet but looked very graceful and contended to me - watching her grand kids playing around and her sons preparing to go to work.

 

September 2015. Horipur, Kushtia.

© Abu Rasel Rony

In Lao PDR, only seven out of ten children complete primary school. Keeping more students in school is one of the government’s key development goals. In this photo, a little boy and his classmates are diligently taking notes in class. Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. Photo: Bart Verweij / World Bank

Volunteers from the community cook traditional Lao recipes with more nutritious ingredients to ensure that the children eat healthier meals. Lao PDR. Photo: Bart Verweij / World Bank

 

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An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate girls and women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

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An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate girls and women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

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Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

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"Save The Girl child"

 

Twenty years ago, the Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen studied countries with skewed gender ratios and calculated that there were 100 million missing women in the world as of 1990. His study appeared in the New York Review of Books that year. In October 2011, demographers at the United Nations Population Fund revised that number upward to 117 million.

 

Some scholars, reporters, and United Nations officers, have circulated the figure of 163 million. Christohe Guilmoto, a demographic expert, explains that this number, “does not correspond to ‘missing women’ per se but to the number of additional women these countries would have if they had the same population sex ratio as the rest of the world. A real estimate of missing women consists in comparing sex ratio by age between affected countries and the rest of the world. … Doing so indicates that there were in 2010 about 115 million women missing from the countries most affected by sex imbalances at birth and excess female mortality.”

 

Gendercide affects women of all ages but bears down especially hard on the youngest. In the last twenty years, sex-selective abortion has displaced infanticide as the primary method for eliminating baby girls. After birth, baby girls are more often neglected to death than actively killed, but families still continue to drown, smother, strangle, and abandon baby girls. Currently, we lose about 2 million baby girls per year to gendercide. This is almost four baby girls every minute.

 

Filmed & Edited by Firoz Ahmad

Music Track Courtesy: B.Sivaramakrishna Rao

A female journalist talking on phone during closing ceremony of three days thematic training on UN SDGs Goal-4 "Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education and Promote Lifelong Learning opportunities for all" for journalists. Organized by INTER MEDIA in Collaboration with Balochistan University of Information Technology engineering and management sciences "BUITEMS" on December 13-15 2016. at BUITEMS in Quetta Pakistan

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wishing you and your loved ones peace and happiness.

An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate girls and women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

Location: Murshidabad, West Bengal,India

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August 2015. Rayer Bazar, Dhaka.

© Abu Rasel Rony

An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate girls and women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

www.picturesmagic.com/

Location: WB_Kanyashree, Murshidabad, West Bengal,India

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On International Day of the Girl Child 2018, themed “With Her: A Skilled Girl Force”, join UN Women as we stand with girls everywhere as they inspire, innovate and take charge of their own future.

 

The 1.1 billion girls of today’s world are challenging the status quo. They’re redefining girlhood, and they’re doing so against the odds.

 

Across the world, girls face adversities that hinder their education, training and entry into the workforce.They have less access to information, communication technology and resources, such as the internet where the global gender gap is growing.

 

A quarter of young people, most of them girls, are neither employed nor getting an education or training.

 

This year alone, 12 million girls under 18 will be married, and 21 million girls aged 15 to 19 years will become pregnant in developing regions.

 

And yet, they persist, they succeed. They are innovating technology to solve global challenges, they are standing up for the environment, they are raising their voices against violence and they are preparing to run for office.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad

Location: The Tech Mahindra SMART Academy for Healthcare at Delhi

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EachforEqual

 

An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate girls and women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

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Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

Location: Kanyashree programme of West bengal Govt. Murshidabad,India

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Kanyashree Prakalpa is a West Bengal government initiative that seeks to improve the status and wellbeing of girls, specifically those from socio-economically disadvantaged families through Conditional Cash Transfers.

 

It is being implemented by the Department of Women Development and Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal.

 

Kanyashree’s core objectives are simple and focussed: it aims to ensure that girls stay in school and delay their marriages till at least age 18. Kanyashree’s approach is also simple: it uses a social safety net mechanism that has shown a high degree of success in transforming the lives of children and adolescents in several countries in the world: Conditional Cash Transfers.

 

Awards Recognitions:

Kanyashree Prakalpa has received national and international recognition for its design and features of good governance. Awards received:

 

1st Place Winner in UNPSA Award 2017

Finalist in GEM-Tech Awards 2016 organized by ITU and UN Women

United Nations WSIS Prize 2016 Champion in e-Government Category (WSIS Action Line C7)

CSI-Nihilent Award, 2014-15.

Skoch Award and Order of Merit 2015 for Smart Governance.

National E-governance Award 2014 – 2015 awarded by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India.

Manthan Award for Digital Inclusion for Development (South Asia and Asia Pacific) 2014 under the category E-Women and Empowerment.

West Bengal Chief Ministers Award for Empowerment of Girls, 2014

 

The Scheme was appreciated as a good practice at:

Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Enclave organized by U. S. Consulate & Shakti Vahini (Siliguri, February 2016).

National Workshop on "Conditional Cash Transfers for Children: Experiences of States in India" organized by NITI Aayog, India (Delhi, December 2015).

Consultation on "Empowerment of Adolescent Girls" organized by the World Bank (Ranchi, May 2015).

Consultation on "Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancies" organized Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Delhi, March 2015).

The "Girls Summit organized by DFID and UNICEF (London, July 2014)

 

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Filmed & Edited by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

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Niama is sleeping in her aunt's arms, next to them, the mother of the infant Mrs. Mamy Koly holds her daughter's health record in her hand during a visit by Mr. Felice Yoamou, Community Relay, who came to provide advice on good feeding and care practices for infants, young children and women, in the convergence commune of Kobéla, Nzérékoré region, Guinea. UNICEF Guinea country office in collaboration with UNICEF WCARO regional office and UNICEF New York headquarters, conducted a field mission in October 2022 to review the status of the effective implementation of primary health care and the Child Friendly Communities (CFC) initiative in Nzérékoré region, Guinea.

The administrative region of Nzérékoré, located in the southeast of Guinea, 954 km from the capital Conakry, includes 6 health districts and has an estimated total population of approximately 2 million inhabitants. The epidemiological profile of this region is characterized by outbreaks of epidemics, including cases of measles, Ebola virus disease, Lassa hemorrhagic fever, and Marburg. Over the past two decades, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene in Guinea has been committed to making maternal, newborn, and child health a priority. However, insufficient progress has been made based on the results of the DHS from 1999 to 2018. There has been a slight decrease in neonatal mortality rates from 48 to 32 per 1,000 live births, infant and child mortality from 177 per 1,000 to 111 deaths per 1,000 live births, and infant mortality from 98 deaths to 67 per 1,000 in 2018. Only 27% of children under 5 years of age sleep under Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs). 55% of children under 5 with diarrhea received treatment with Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS) and only 22% with ORS-Zinc. Only 83% of children with Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) received treatment or counseling and 30% on the same day. Only 24% of children aged 12-23 months received all vaccinations with persistent measles outbreaks. Low rate of exclusive breastfeeding 33%. High prevalence of stunting at 30%, 9% are emaciated or acutely malnourished and 16% are underweight. Low level of sanitation, 52% of households have an improved sanitation facility. The Ministry of Health's main strategy for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is based on primary health care. In 2018, UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene (MSHP) operationalized this new policy in 40 communes known as convergence communes with the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization (MATD).

"When we unleash the power of women, we can secure the future for all," says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for International Women’s Day 2015. -

Photo: Firoz Ahmad

See 2 short films:

a film with English subtitle is about the empowerment of marginalized women and adolescent girls.>

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a short film about the Girls lead boys in academic achievement>

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An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate girls and women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

All Rights Reserved

My best wishes for Christmas and peace, health and happiness for the year 2016.

Without progress for girls, there can be no real progress.

 

Kanyashree Prakalpa seeks to improve the status and wellbeing of girls, specifically those from socio-economically disadvantaged families. As more and more girls remain in school, it is envisaged that they will use the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge that will help them become economically independent. Even if girls do get married soon after they turn 18, it is expected that their education and enhanced social and emotional development will give them a better foundation for in their adult lives. And over time, as entire generations of women enter marriages only after they have some degree of economic independence, it is expected that the practice of child marriage is completely eradicated, and women will attain their right to health, education and socio-economic equality.

wbkanyashree.gov.in/kp_4.0/index.php

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

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Location: Kanyashree Prakalpa programme, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, india

 

Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.

Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.

 

An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.

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Photo: Firoz Ahmad

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The government’s National School Meal Program, supported by the World Bank, has been providing free lunches to students from poor, rural provinces in Laos. Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. Photo: Bart Verweij / World Bank

Before they eat, students like these in the Had Ane Primary School of Oudomxay Province are taught the importance of proper hand washing, drinking safe water, and using clean utensils. Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. Photo: Bart Verweij / World Bank

Shakharibazar, Old Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

One dream to build a country.

One dream to a motivation.

 

It spread to thousand eyes.

It created a changing nation.

 

Captured from Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. A child holding one of her elementary level books. God knows what she was thinking, what her dreamy eyes were saying.

 

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An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

 

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad

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Educate the Girl.

 

Join the UNiTE Campaign’s Orange the World: #HearMeToo! Share your photos, messages and videos showing how you are participating in the campaign at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.

 

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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Portrait of Faryal Noor, 6, who attends her class at a UNICEF-supported school in Jalozai camp, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. UNICEF and our partners are providing humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of families who have been displaced by insecurity in north-west Pakistan.

 

© UNICEF Pakistan/2013/Asad Zaidi

 

To learn more:

www.unicef.org/pakistan

www.facebook.com/unicefpakistan

www.twitter.com/UNICEF_Pakistan

www.unicef.org/photography

In a world filled with endless possibilities, there's a little girl whose smile can light up even the darkest corners.

 

Photo by Firoz Ahmad Firoz

www.picturesmagic.com/

 

Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.

 

Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.

 

Photo: Firoz Ahmad

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

 

#IWD2020 #EachforEqual

 

An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

 

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Moving away from learning by rote, child centred learning is being introduced in some rural schools in Cambodia. While resources and teacher skills are limited - encouraging a more interactive, task based learning style produces remarkable results.

 

My photographs are (C) Copyrighted Richard Friend and All Rights Reserved.

 

None of these photos may be reproduced and/or used in any form of publication, print or the Internet without my written permission.

 

My best wishes for Christmas and peace, health and happiness for the year 2016.

.My best wishes for Christmas and peace, health and happiness for the year 2016.

Filmed, edited & colored by Firoz Ahmad

 

Social Geographic crossed more than 15 million views. Thank you everyone for so much love n support. Also many thanks for great feedback, faves and wonderful comments.

 

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Educate the Girl.

 

Join the UNiTE Campaign’s Orange the World: #HearMeToo! Share your photos, messages and videos showing how you are participating in the campaign at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.

 

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PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Anisa (8), shows her books while attending UNICEF-supported school in Hussain Muhammad Kanad village in Thatta district, Sindh province.

 

The official statistics indicate that 59% of the 6.4 million children of primary school age are out of school; 65% of this group are girls.

 

©UNICEF/Pakistan/2013/Asad Zaidi

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