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Enhancing the international protection of children, particularly girl children, affected by armed conflict.
Enhancing the international protection of children, particularly girl children, affected by armed conflict
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An opportunity for girls to hold direct dialogue with Member States and UN Agencies through a girl-led town hall discussion.
In recognition of the gaps in the full realization and protection of girls' rights, and in light of commitments made for girls in the Beijin
In recognition of the gaps in the full realization and protection of girls' rights, and in light of commitments made for girls in the Beijing Platform for Action's landmark Section L- The Girl-Child almost 30 years ago, this year's International Day of the Girl event will focus on the theme of Girls' Vision for the Future.
Artistic Performance - Step Team from Boerum Hill School for International Studies
Welcome & Opening
Townhall Part I - Girl Advocates
How can girls in all their diversity be encouraged and included to participate in all aspects of society, including education, economic opportunities, and civic engagement?
What practical measures can be implemented to ensure the safety and wellbeing of girls both online and offline?
How can mental health education and support for girls become a global priority for governments?
Townhall Part II - Open questions from the floor
Closing Remarks and Video
Contributing to the collective path forward to ensure all girls everywhere are able to thrive, this year's Girls' Speak Out at UNHQ will provide an opportunity for girls to hold direct dialogue with Member States and UN Agencies through a girl-led town hall discussion hosted by the Working Group on Girls and Sponsoring Partners: The Permanent Mission of Canada, The Permanent Mission of TĂĽrkiye, The Permanent Mission of PerĂş, UNFPA, UNICEF, and UN Women.
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Existing and Emerging Sexually Exploitative Practices against Children in the Digital Environment.
This event will focus on new and emerging risks to children in the digital environment and the role artificial intelligence plays in both ex
The event will seek to provide an overview of recent trends and developments in sexually exploitative practices against children in the digital envir.nment, spotlight the key challenges posed by AI and related technologies, as well as its positive potential to combat the trends of child sexual abuse and exploitation.
The event will also serve to formally introduce the report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children on "Existing and Emerging Sexually Exploitative Practices against Children in the Digital Environment". Key findings and recommendations from this report will be highlighted, and complemented with a multi-stakeholder panel discussion on better understanding the impact of technological advancements on child protection in the digital space.
Opening Remarks
Presentation of the Report on Existing and Emerging Sexually Exploitative Practices against Children in the Digital Environment
National practices on safeguarding children in the digital environment
Leveraging AI in investigations: the AI for Safer Children initiative
Better Understanding Trends in AI Innovation and Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Digital Environment
Questions and Comments
Closing Remarks
Organizers: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Special Rapporteur on the sale sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations.
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Meeting Our Commitments to the World's Women and Girls: A UN DESA Global Policy Dialogue on Gender Equality.
After the United Nations' Summit of the Future, where world leaders highlighted the need to deliver a better present and safeguard the futur
After the United Nations' Summit of the Future, where world leaders highlighted the need to deliver a better present and safeguard the future, it is clear that women and girls will need to be at the heart of the new Pact for the Future.
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Celebrate the potential of every girl, including migrant girls, to achieve their dreams.
Today and every day, we celebrate the potential of every girl, including migrant girls, to achieve their dreams, change the world, and make a difference.
By 2030, over 340 million women and girls will be living on less than $2.15 a day.
If current trends continues, more than 400 million women & girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030. Most of them will be in sub-Saharan Africa.
State of the World's Girls -Key findings.
Girls and young Girls and young women surveyed said:
"Despite the hurdles put in their way most of the adolescent girl and young women activists were determined to continue with their activism and saw it as a life’s work."
Support girls’ and young women’s collective action and recognise their value and role as civil society actors.
It is critical that power holders in all decision-making spaces support girls’ and young women’s collective action and recognise their value and role as civil society actors. There are four key ways to achieve this;
1 - Increase the amount of flexible and diverse funding to grassroots girl and youth-led groups and networks. 2 - Strengthen adolescent girls’ and young women’s participation in civic and political life: ceding power to grassroots girl and youth-led groups, and providing access to decision-makers through open, safe civic space. 3 - Address barriers to girls’ and young women’s activism and the mounting backlash against those who are politically active – at family, national and international levels: particularly against the backdrop of strong anti-rights movements and increased gender discrimination. 4 - Support girls’ and young women’s education at all levels, including the necessary soft skills development to build self-confidence, improve communication competences and bolster leadership potential.
Provide financial resources and non-financial support.
Government donors, philanthropists, funding bodies and civil society organisations must: - Increase the provision of flexible and responsive funding to girl- and youth-led groups, organisations, and networks to support their work: incorporating seed and other types of flexible funding and including small grants and long-term financing, that is responsive to their priorities and the contexts they operate in. Multi-year flexible grants should be made available to reduce fundraising burdens and allow youth groups to adjust programmatic priorities and to respond to changing environments. - Provide non-financial support in line with girls’ needs. This could include girl and youth-centred capacity strengthening, access to mentoring and network building opportunities, access to decisionmakers and influencing spaces, safety and security and mental health and wellbeing support, and physical assets such as office space. - Re-assess risk appetites to shift more power to and trust in young people. Including by removing any bureaucratic barriers that prevent girl activists and young women-led groups from accessing funding and other non-financial support. Where adapting practices to increase direct funding will take time, donors should be open to testing different modalities for shifting money and working with others, includingfeminist and/or youth-friendly intermediaries, to find solutions to provide financial and non-financial support to girl-and-youth-led organisations and networks. Especially where they are unregistered or cannot meet donor pre-conditions such as having bank accounts. - Provide financial resources through more inclusive and participatory grant-making processes codesigned with girls. Girls need to be at the heart of setting donor priorities, and of decision-making, concerning the distribution of funds. Funders should adopt more youth-friendly applications and reporting processes, reducing the administrative and reporting burden: freeing up young people’s, often volunteers’, time will expand their capacity for undertaking advocacy activities. - Provide fair and adequate compensation. Organisations working with girls and young people need to pay for their time and expertise. Donors, who are often responsible for setting ceilings for compensation, must do so in a way that is genderresponsive and reflective of the local economic climate taking into consideration cost of living and rates of inflation. Civil society and NGOs should also provide reasonable support, including financial compensation, to young people who are engaged intheir activities.
Strengthen the meaningful engagement of girls and young women in all areas of public life, facilitating access to decision-makers.
Governments should: - Remove any institutional barriers that constrain girl-led groups and youth groups’ freedoms of association and assembly, access to information, the right to privacy and to be heard. Their autonomy must be respected and free from unwanted interference. - Ensure that national laws and policies make it possible for girls and young women to choose to organise within movements or associations and legally register or not, without repercussion on their activities or their funding options. - Provide, along with local authorities, the necessary spaces and resources to enable girl and youth led groups to engage in public dialogue and decision-making as respected members of civil society. - Adopt, budget for, implement and monitor national legislation and policies to ensure girls and young women activists in all their diversity, are able to actively contribute to public life. This should include legislation that acknowledges and protects all children and young people from violence and particularly girls and women from gender-based discrimination when they choose to be politically active. Legislation and policies should be full consistent with international human rights law including the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Governments, local government and national ministries must: - Increase, strengthen and adequately resource existing structures that enable girls and young people’s participation within formal governance mechanisms such as national youth councils, and child and youth parliaments: ensuring these structures operate in a way that is gender- and ageresponsive and promote the inclusion of girls and young women in all their diversity. United Nations, governments and the international community must: - Fulfil their commitment to girls’ and young women’s meaningful participation in the shaping, implementation and monitoring of global development agendas and frameworks. This should include upholding existing commitments to girls, gender equality and the Leave No One Behind principle in the SDG framework and other processes such as Generation Equality and the International Conference on Population and Development. To ensure girls and young women can access and freely express their views and recommendations at all levels of decision-making, governments should consider their inclusion in national delegations to intergovernmental spaces, including, but not limited to, the SDG Summit in September 2023 and the Summit of the Future in September 2024.
Address barriers to girls' and young women's activism and the mounting blacklash agianst those who politically active.
Governments should: - Ensure girls and young women activists can speak out without fear of threats, harassment or violence, both online and in public spaces through social norms change campaigns, enforced laws and policies, and strengthened reporting mechanisms. Girls’ networks and youth groups should have the freedom to speak out and engage in protests without fear of interference from government authorities, the military and local law enforcement.
Government policy makers and social media companies must: - Take responsibility for creating an open, accessible and safe online civic space for girl and young women activists, providing meaningful connectivity and secure access to the internet. This includes through the creation of regulatory frameworks for content moderation and by creating stronger, more effective, transparent and accessible reporting mechanismsthat are specific to online gender-based violence and age-related discrimination, that hold perpetrators to account and are responsive to girls’ needs and experiences.
National, regional and international human rights bodies and governments should: - Take measures to monitor the specific situation for girl and young women human rights defenders and take appropriate action to protect and empower them.
Governments, donors, NGOs and gender justice movements must: - Resource and support the wellbeing and safety of girl-led groups who are advocating at the frontlines. Girls need space to process and support their psychosocial health when dealing with the systemic violence and discrimination against them. This is especially the case for girls advocating in countries where there are conflicts, restrictive civic space and unstable political systems or when they are campaigning on particularly sensitive or taboo issues.
International organisations, including UN bodies, partnerships and INGOs should: - Invest in and support long term programmes, including mentoring, that provide early opportunities and sustained support for girls and young women who choose to speak out and advocate in their communities. Where possible, these organisations should work in partnership with women’s rights movements and other grassroots organisations to provide intergenerational support, solidarity, and mentorship to girl activists.
State of the world's Girls. - Download as a PDF or view online for free
Support Girls and young women's education at all levels.
Education Ministries should: - Ensure the provision of inclusive, quality gender transformative education which includes a focus on human rights and civic education. Equipping all children and youth, particularly girls and young women, with the necessary skills, knowledge, critical consciousness and experience to feel confident to engage in civic and political life as activists, advocates and informed citizens. This commitment is enshrined in the SDG 4.7 target and governments should make a point of reporting on progress to implement this as part of their commitment to Leave No One Behind.
School stakeholders (teachers, councils, and parents) must: - Provide students, especially girls, with opportunities to develop the soft skills integral to influencing, including leadership skills-development, public speaking, and access to decision-making processes within school governance structures, such as school councils and elections.
INGOs and civil society must: - Recognise the value of girl and youth activists to affect change and support the development of critical influencing skills: building effective advocacy and the ability to lobby power holders, including how to navigate different policy spaces and influencing processes. Focus should also be given to soft skills development, including leadership, public speaking and self-confidence.
State of the world's girls
State of the world's Girls. - Download as a PDF or view online for free
Turning the world around girls and young women activists leading the fight for equality.
The "State of the world's Girls'' research provides a unique insight from over 1,000 participants* into what it’s like to be an adolescent girl or young women activist in 2023: how are they treated, do they feel safe, what keeps them going?
Forcibly displaced women and girls can't be left behind in an increasingly digitized world.
Refugee girls deserve the opportunities to chase their dreams in this digital world. A sustainable future is not possible without them.
Inclusive tech
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Innovation for equality
Around the world, girls are: Innovating.
The Digital Skills to Careers Programme helps girls and young women find jobs, launch careers, and support themselves.
Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality.
Around the world, girls are: Leading.
Girls are shattering stereotypes & overcoming gender bias that have long hindered them from realizing their full potential & chasing their dreams.
Around the world girls are: Learning.
On the #DayOfTheGirl & every day,