Article 1 // Education and Girls
- Feminism : doctrine that advocates equality between men and women, and the expansion of women's role in society.
- Standard : Set of rules of conduct that are imposed on a social group.
- Social position : Position, rank, importance that a person occupies in society.
- Tuberculosis : infectious and contagious disease, most commonly affecting the lung.
- Abstention : avoidance of doing something.
- Economic conditions : situation in which a person finds himself or herself, not being able to support himself or herself financially..
- Moral conditions : set of rules of conduct, considered absolutely good or derived from a certain conception of life.
- Emancipation : act of freeing oneself from a bond, a hindrance, a state of dependence, a domination, a prejudice.
Article 2 // Malala Yousafzai
- Activist :form of collective commitment to a cause of a moral, religious, social, political, associative or trade union nature, often with a view to protesting against what is perceived as an injustice.
- Spokesperson : person who speaks on behalf of someone else, an assembly, a group.
- Pacifism : has two possible meanings including the action of peace advocates, or a doctrine of non-violence.
- Taliban : Member of an armed fundamentalist Islamic movement in Afghanistan.
- Breach : Not respecting (a commitment, a law).
- Paralysed : Complete reduction or deprivation of the ability to move, to feel.
- To militate : To militate for, against... to constitute a reason, an argument (for or against).
- Contributor : Person, group who takes part in the realisation of a project, an enterprise.
- Pashtun : Iranian people divided into several large tribes and speaking mainly Pashto.
- Malalai of Maiwand : national folk heroine from Afghanistan who rallied the Pashtun army against British troops in 1880 at the Battle of Maiwand.
Article 3 // Girl Rising
- CorrElation : link, reciprocal relationship.
- Eradication : stop, remove, heal.
- Misery : state of extreme poverty, destitution.
- Socio-economic impetus : movement relating to social problems in their relation to economic problems.
- Emerging countries : countries whose economic situation is developing. This growth is calculated according to GDP, new businesses and infrastructure, and the standard of living and quality of life of the inhabitants.
- Faith : absolute trust in someone or something.
- Developing country : country moving from a state of chronic underdevelopment to the process of development (economic and social transformation induced by a growth rate; expansion).
- Non-profit organisation : non-profit organisation is a grouping of two or more people who decide to pool resources in order to carry out an activity with a primary purpose other than their personal enrichment. The disinterested nature of the activity therefore prohibits the distribution of a profit to the partners.
- Early pregnancies : concerns pregnant girls whose young age increases the risk of health effects and negative social consequences.