What You Need to Know
Empowering girls solves the world’s biggest problems, but right now we’re sliding into a more unequal world.
Women and girls suffer the most when it comes to poverty and climate change – we need world leaders to do more.
Call for leaders to help every girl achieve her potential.
Today, not a single country can claim to have achieved gender equality.
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change and poverty. One in three will experience sexual and physical violence, half are denied choices about their own bodies and health, and 132 million girls are currently out of school. On this current course, it will take another 136 years to close the global gender gap.
These statistics are shocking, and they have only been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 1995, leaders from across the globe met in Beijing to achieve a world where every woman and girl can live free from violence, go to school and learn, control her future, and earn equal pay for equal work. An equal world for all.
In 2021 world leaders agreed to honor these aims at the Generation Equality Forum, but the pace of change has been too slow - and the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing gender inequalities.
Girls are today’s unrecognised superheroes. Empowering adolescent girls is central to a sustainable future and breaking the cycle of poverty. It is critically important that leaders give them the support they deserve.
As Global Citizens, we call on you commit to the recommendations of the Generation Equality Forum, to tackle the unfinished business needed to achieve gender equality and help every girl achieve her potential.
With hope,
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