{"id":872,"date":"2015-06-02T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2015-06-02T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:20:54","slug":"a-teenager-from-walthamstow-has-been-chosen-to-work-with-a-charity-promoting-the-rights-of-women-and-fighting-for-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/a-teenager-from-walthamstow-has-been-chosen-to-work-with-a-charity-promoting-the-rights-of-women-and-fighting-for-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"A teenager from Walthamstow has been chosen to work with a charity promoting the rights of women and fighting for equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young campaigner has been chosen to fight for the rights of women around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Arifa Nasim, 18, is going global to help an international children\u2019s charity after being selected to join the Advisory Panel (YAP) of Plan UK.\u00a0Eighteen youths from across the UK have been selected to advise the charity on their projects.<\/p>\n<p>The group have a special focus on the organisation\u2019s Because I am a Girl campaign, which focuses on achieving equality.\u00a0Arifa said: \u201cI want to speak up against honour based violence such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hugely passionate about educating women as I believe education is an incredibly powerful tool to unlock the infinite potential we have as young women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arifa has already been campaigning in Waltham Forest for a number of years to help end #forcedmarriage, speaking in schools and delivering child protection training.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian-series.co.uk\/news\/13219113.E17_teen_chosen_to_fight_for_women_s_rights\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.guardian-series.co.uk\/news\/13219113.E17_teen_chosen_to_fight_for_women_s_rights\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young campaigner has been chosen to fight for the rights of women around the world. Arifa Nasim, 18, is going global to help an international children\u2019s charity after being selected to join the Advisory Panel (YAP) of Plan UK.\u00a0Eighteen youths from across the UK have been selected to advise the charity on their projects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177,7,4,266],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-charity","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-plan-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}