Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. Proverbs 31:25
Fact Sheet*
● At least 207,459 children younger than 18, most of them girls, were married in the United States between 2000 and 2015.
● One in five women in college experiences sexual assault.12 Students are at the highest risk of sexual assault in the first few months of their first and second semesters in college.
● Women who identify as lesbian, bisexual or gay are more likely to experience sexual assault on college campuses than those who identify as heterosexual.
● As of 2022, at least 38 African Union countries have measures in place that protect the right to education for pregnant students and adolescent mothers to various degrees.
A crucial tool for facilitating thoughtful and challenging reflections is the Fact, Association, Meaning and Action (FAMA) tool. FAMA is a behavior-change communication tool presented as a set of visual cards used to assist faith leaders, women, girls, boys and men in identifying and understanding various social phenomena that affect women’s and girls’ freedoms. Most cards depict discrimination against girls to emphasize links between early socialization and subsequent abuses such as intimate- partner violence.
*From: 16 Days of Activism Toolkit