After years of grassroots mobilisation, 700 young Maasai girls spurn genital mutilation for alternative rite of passage
During the three-day session, over 700 girls aged between 10-17 years received training on life skills and decision making, sexual and reproductive health, child rights and gender equality, hygiene and personal care and education and career aspirations.
Great grandchildren of former slave owners and slaves in the Caribbean up the ante for reparations at UN meeting
The Geneva-based Human Rights Council has called for global action for years, including reparations, apologies and educational reforms to make amends for racism against people of African descent. The 15-nation Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, has a 10-point plan for reparatory justice, starting with demands for European countries where enslaved people were kept and traded to issue formal apologies.
