Eight delegates from Guatemala, Malawi, Uganda and Liberia – including 12-year old Jimena and 13-year old Tisungeni – joined the LGL team for a week of high-level meetings and events. Our collective goal was to amplify the voices and forces of girls as the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals were finalized. Click here to learn more.
Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies: Conversations from Women Deliver 2016 – Girls’ Globe
Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies: Conversations from Women Deliver 2016 Girls’ Globe | June 17, 2016 Girls’ Globe talks to leaders working to save lives of mothers and babies at Women Deliver, including Rise Up Executive Director Denise Dunning who shares her near-death experience giving birth to her son and the experiences of women she knows worldwide, who … Read More
Creating Our To-Do List: Looking Forward at the United State of Women – Ms. Magazine
Rise Up Executive Director Denise Dunning highlights the key themes from the United State of Women Summit on June 14, 2016.
Women Deliver + Social Good: Ambassador Catherine Russell & Tinbit Daniel
In an interview with Ambassador Catherine Russell at Women Deliver 2016, Rise Up Together Youth Champion Tinbit Daniel discusses her work evolving gender roles in Ethiopia.
Love Matters: India’s Anti-Violence Sex Advice Site
Love Matters: India’s Anti-Violence Sex Advice Site News Deeply | June 6, 2016 News Deeply talks to Rise Up Youth Champion Gayatri Parameswaran, a member of a group of young Indian journalists and experts bringing sex advice to the country’s 520 million Hindi-speakers with Love Matters, the first website of its kind. Read the article here.
Maternal Mortality and Me: I Beat the Odds, But Many Women Don’t – Ms. Magazine
Maternal Mortality and Me: I Beat the Odds, But Many Women Don’t Ms. Magazine | May 18, 2016 Rise Up’s Denise Dunning talks about her near-death experience giving birth and highlights how Rise Up is working with partners to lower the rates of maternal mortality. Read the article here.
Girls’ Globe Impact Series Part III: WhatsApp as a Medium to Inform Audiences of Love Matters in India
Rise Up speaks with Youth Champion Gayatri Parameswaran of Love Matters. Rise Up is pleased to launch our Impact Blog Series for the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. This series highlights the work of two Champions for Change (C4C) leaders in Nigeria and one Youth Champions Initiative (YCI) leader from India. C4C’s Champions in Nigeria are working together to … Read More
Where Are the Girls? – Huffington Post
Rise Up’s Denise Dunning examines how girls can be included at the center of the development agenda during the 2015 UN Commission on the Status of Women. In celebration of International Women’s Day, we honor women leaders who are building a better world, and reflect on the enduring obstacles to gender equity that we continue to fight. Next week’s 60th … Read More
Girls Behind the Camera – Malawi (Short Version)
Rise Up Together enabled six Malawian girls to write, produce, direct and record this video sharing their experiences overcoming injustice. Each girl’s story focuses on her priority issue – including access to education, child marriage, and sexual assault.
Nikodimos Takele Geberetsadik
Ethiopia Nikodimos is dedicated to reproductive health and family planning. He serves as the focal person for MSI’s e-voucher program, which provides young, low-income women with free access to MSI and Blue Star clinics. Nikodimos is also in charge of behavior change communications, branding, and promotion of the MSI and BlueStar Healthcare Networks. Nikodimos holds a degree in economics from … Read More
