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Girls rights and humanitarian organisation Plan International Australia condemns and is appalled by the new “vice and virtue” laws introduced by the Taliban this week, which have barred women from speaking, singing, reciting words aloud or showing their faces in public.
Severe flooding triggered by monsoon rains in Bangladesh has left millions of children in need of humanitarian assistance. Plan International Bangladesh’s Emergency Response Team, volunteers and local partner organisations have been deployed to impacted communities.
Aid agencies and medical professionals have joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to about 640,000 children aged under 10 following confirmation of the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years.
Nearly 500 days since the conflict in Sudan began and this latest attack on schools in North Kordofan has once again taken children’s lives and blown away any dreams of children ever returning to the classroom.
The UN-backed IPC’s latest famine review on Sudan, has found that conflict has pushed parts of North Darfur – notably the Zamzam camp near El Fasher town into famine conditions.
Leading organisation for girls’ rights, Plan International Australia, is today launching a new program offering young people a chance to learn more about making change for gender justice. Open to young people of any gender aged 15-26, the Youth Impact Academy is an online, completely free program aimed at building leadership, advocacy, and campaigning skills for young people in their fight against inequality and gender equality.
New global research from Plan International and CNN’s As Equals which gathered insight from more than 600 young women and girls aged 13-24 across nine countries worldwide has found that one in 10 (11%) of girls and young women reported having harmful online experiences daily or almost daily, with almost 40% reporting they have been harassed at least once a month. The report comes as Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, this week issued legal notices to large tech companies – holding them to account on what they are doing to combat AI-generated child abuse material, deep fakes, online grooming and sexual extortion.
Leading humanitarian and girls’ rights organisation, Plan International Australia has today welcomed Hollywood actress and activist Phoebe Tonkin as a national ambassador.
