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Groups Equip Teenage Girls On Media Engagement, Advocacy

Action Health Incorporated, in conjunction with Rise Up, has trained 60 teenage girls in Lagos State on media engagement and evidence-based advocacy.
They were also equipped with skills on storytelling and public dialogue to strengthen their voices in demanding for change in their respective communities.

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The groups, which took them on a five-day training, noted that from research and observation, many adolescent girls in Nigeria face human rights abuses on a daily basis. Others include gender-based violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and limitations on their mobility, education, employment,