South Asia | New Zealand | Activism

The rise of high school feminism

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For the first time in decades, feminism is firmly on the agenda for a growing number of teenagers. Meet the high school students championing the cause, and asks what sparked the shift. The 11.20 bell marks the start of morning tea, and as hundreds of students stream out of classrooms into the sun, a group of 15 convenes in room D11. At the door is a quote from American televangelist Pat Robertson: "Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." Th
International | Guatemala | Culture

The 15-Year-Old From Rural Guatemala Who Addressed The U.N

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When Emelin was 13, she asked the mayor of her rural Guatemalan town to find ways to help girls stay in school and get better health care. He laughed out loud. "You are wasting my time; you should go home," he told Emelin and her friend Elba, who had come with her. That was then. Emelin, now 15, spoke by invitation at the United Nations in the "Every Woman Every Child" program presented as part of the Commission on the Status of Women. She sat — and spoke about the obstacles girls face in her community and how she and Elba persuaded the mayor to implement and fund policies that would hel