How girls’ education and safety will be harmed by the covid response

Expand Students of Moi High School Kabarak load a mini bus with suitcases at Uhuru Park in Nairobi as they wait to be ferried to their homes following an order by the Kenyan government to suspend learning in all educational institutions as a preventive measure against the spread of Coronavirus. Kenya has since reported four cases of the COVID-19. © 2020 Dennis Sigwe / SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Images. (Photo by Dennis Sigwe / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Abigail*, a young woman who lives in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare became pregnant by a much older married man when she was 14. She…

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