"My Girl"

Preventing child marriages: first international day of the girl child “my life, my right, end child marriage”

On 17 November 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (A/RES/66/170) designating 11 October as the first International Day of the Girl Child choosing ending child marriages as the theme of the day. Child marriage is a fundamental human rights violation and impacts all aspects of a girl's life. These marriages deny a girl of her childhood, disrupts her education, limits h...

When My Mom Was a Little Girl . . . : Gender Differences in Adolescents’ Intergenerational and Personal Stories

Narratives about parents may help adolescents navigate their own experiences. Yet, research has not examined what adolescents know about their intergenerational past. Sixty-five 14to 16-year-old middle-class, racially diverse adolescents narrated two stories about each parent’s childhood, and 2 positive personal stories. Narratives were coded for structure (length, elaboration), theme (affiliat...

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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O-23: "Caring My Family Integrity"

MHMD: My Health, My Data

MHMD is an EU-funded project poised to create the first open biomedical information network centred on the connection between organisations and the individual, aiming at encouraging hospitals to start making anonymised data available for open research, while prompting citizens to become the ultimate owners and controllers of their health data.