The G(irls)20 Summit brings together one delegate from each G20 country, plus a representative from the chair country of the African Union. The delegates debate, discuss and design innovative ideas necessary to empower girls and women globally. While the agenda is the same as the G20 leaders and focuses on economic innovation – the participants are all girls, aged 18-20.
FRANCE 2011
This is the decisive decade for girls and women. Join the global campaign to empower girls and women. Apply to be a delegate, get your number and help build the agenda.
This is the decisive decade for girls and women. Join the global campaign to empower girls and women. Apply to be a delegate, get your number and help build the agenda.
GIRLS AND WOMEN ARE
THE MORAL ISSUES OF
OUR TIME.
The New York Times
The health of adolescent girls is everyone's business.
We all need to step up to the plate to embrace
this ambitious agenda. Melinda Gates
We all need to step up to the plate to embrace
this ambitious agenda. Melinda Gates
Women and girls are not the problem;
they are the solution. Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
they are the solution. Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
Out of the world's 130 million out-of-school youth,
70 percent are girls. UN Foundation
70 percent are girls. UN Foundation
An extra year of secondary schooling has been demonstrated to increase women's future wages
by 10-20 percent. Amazing Women Rock Website
by 10-20 percent. Amazing Women Rock Website
Countries with the lowest number of girls in education lie at the bottom of the human development tables.
OECD
A year ago The New York Times noted that girls and women are the moral issue of our time.
Since then, there has been an emergence of actions and commitments dedicated to the advancement of girls and women including but not limited to: Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Women initiative; Kristof and WuDunn's Half they Sky and recently, the first ever G(irls)20 Summit. Now, organizations like the Clinton Global Initiative, TED, the World Economic Forum and others are focusing their agendas on the empowerment and advancement of girls and women.
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