It’s All About The Girls: Is The World Listening To Them?
Category
Adolescents and Youth, Child Marriage, Economic Opportunity & Security, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
News Organization
NPR
Publication Author
Linda Poon
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Highlighting the need to take girls’ unique perspectives and challenges into account in any global development agenda, ICRW’s Lyric Thompson gives her perspective on why adolscent girls matter to NPR’s Goats and Sodas blog.
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