Credit: Casetify, Glossier, Kimoli, Stanley / Mashable Composite Trends among teen girls are an ever-changing hellscape. Even millennials — people who are not that old, thank you very much ...

26. -- Five children, all inmates of the nursery, were burned to death in a fire which totally destroyed Shelton Cottage, the home of the girls, at the Virginia Synod Presbyterian Orphans' Home ...

Two orphans and 16 single-parent girls from secondary schools in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, have praised Ambassador Nefo Esimai as “God-sent” for his remarkable financial support during the ...

The phenomenon of “girl culture,” epitomized by last year’s box-office blockbuster “Barbie” and the record-shattering, financial powerhouse tours of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift ...

In Shuchi Talati's film Girls Will Be Girls, shame around female bodies and sexuality is evaluated through the eyes of a 16-year-old student at a Himalayan boarding school. Starring Preeti Panigrahi, ...

A Non-Governmental Organisation focused on supporting children without parental care and families at risk, SOS Children’s Villages, has decried the over 17.5 million orphans living in Nigeria ...

Faced with trauma, neglect, and difficult living conditions, well-designed architecture helps restore dignity to children by providing the stability they need after losing a safe home. In this ...

A young girl, no older than ten, trudges barefoot down the side of the road, her sister slung over her shoulder. Then a shocked passerby stops her. The two children were encountered by a ...

The Stan Twitter Meme Girl was a 15-year-old who went viral as a dress-up photo for people to decorate in merch from their favorite media. Now 24, the woman known as Ari recently reminded the ...

The following story has been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as one of the best of the week. Pictures by Joel Saget and Guillem Sartorio Jeanne Allaire Kayigirwa was sure she ...

Displaced girl carries little sister on her shoulders for more than two kilometres in Gaza seeking medical treatment The little sister had reportedly been hit by a car, and the young girl had been ...

Chris Desmond receives funding from UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub,Grant/Award Number: ES/S008101/1 Kathryn Watt ...