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Nike Not Playing Games When It Comes To Empowering Female Athletes In This New Video - GirlTalkHQ

The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics are just around the corner, and we are starting to see a lot of attention on the athletes and the event in the lead up. …

“Sport in India has a massive image problem, particularly for women. What we set out to do is give it a complete makeover by making it cool, accessible and fun…We commissioned some of the best image makers and musicians, and got together a crew of women that best represent sport in India right now,” said Mohamed Rizwan, creative director at Wieden + Kennedy India, the creative agency behind the video.

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I first saw this video 5 years ago, when my Modern Comparative Politics professor played it during class. It lays out such a powerful message in a such a simple way. It’s just words set to a little tune, but as I sat there in class, I was nearly moved to tears. 

On this International Women’s Day, I feel like it’s important to remember that while our own first world struggles are real and important, they are not the only battles that need to be fought. It is our responsibility as women to make sure that all women can benefit from the advances we make. We need to make a conscious effort to look out for each other, to take care of each other, to help each other. Because the sad reality is that if we don’t, no one else will.  

We are in this together. Help a girl to help the world.

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Watch this video on The Girl Effect Accelerator, a group that scales up projects in the developing world to help girls in poverty.

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Nike-backed startups put girls first in fight against global poverty

Nike-backed startups put girls first in fight against global poverty

SAN FRANCISCO — For the past two weeks, ten companies have been consulting with mentors, growing their business models and collaborating with one target demographic in mind: young women in impoverished parts of the world, a population that many say is the most marginalized in the world. On Tuesday, these companies showed off their progress at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco as part of…

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“I am 19 years old and I have two children. My education was stopped due to my marriage at a young age. But now I have started studying again, because I want to be educated and I need to be," says Manahil from Pakistan. Manahil's voice is part of a chorus of more than 500 girls, ages 10 to 19, who have shared their challenges and dreams with the Girl Declaration, a campaign started last year by the Nike Foundation. Activists say the world's girls are not represented in the current Millennium Development Goals, which focus on education and poverty, by failing to address child marriage, genital mutilation and adolescent pregnancy. The United Nations plans to replace the current goals with a new agenda for 2015, and activists are pushing for world leaders and policy makers to turn their attention to girls. Read more via NPR.

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the girl effect

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A recent report by the Population Council, the U.N. Foundation and the Nike Foundation points to opportunities to provide economic and social opportunities to adolescent girls in migration in the developing world. Recommendations in the report include building social and institutional safety nets to ensure education, basic life skills training, pre-migration briefing, safe havens and social networks in cities.

Read the full article by Kathy Bushkin Calvin, President and CEO of the United Nations Foundation.