Author: Vanessa Stevens

Teaser: “We asked the girls if they wanted us to take the ban to court, and they said, ‘Yes, fight our case for us,’” Hannah Yambasu explained. In May 2018, WAVES and its legal allies Equality Now and the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa took the Sierra Leone government to court for violating international treaties and breaching girls’ right to education.

https://globalfundforchildren.org/story/the-girls-have-won/