#girlsummit

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Girl Power Rocks Empowers More than 90 Girls at “It Takes a Village” Girls Summit 

More than 90 girls gathered at the Overtown Performing Arts Center in Miami for Girl Power Rocks’ “It Takes a Village” Girls Summit, a day f

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#ENDviolence

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Powerful, simple & inspiring. Malala on how we can end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child & forced marriage at last week's Girl Summit.

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FREEDOM is... #YouthForChange #GirlSummit #ProgressioICS #EndFGM #ChildMarriage #Malawi #Africa

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The Girl Summit in London this week generated momentum, but if we look beyond the pledges, it is evident that these harmful practices are connected to other injustices girls endure.

Statistics show 30 million girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the next decade, and each year about 14 million girls are forced to marry before they are ready. 

FGM tends to happen with the complicity of families, communities and police, who not only do not report the crime, but also often try to hide it. 

Yet it is said that when girls are empowered, they can change their communities and the world. So why, with all this interest in girls, are their rights violated in every country?

Read more via The Guardian.

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[sofsocialgood]

Today, the UK's first Girl Summit will rally a global movement to end child, early, forced marriage and FGM for all girls.

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Today the first Girl Summit focusing on female genital mutilation and child early forced marriage was held in the UK. Attendants included Prime MInister David Cameron and NGOs focused on ending these two tragedies both within the UK and around the world.

Pledge your support and stand with victims today. Raise your voices now to prevent more girls from becoming victims tomorrow.