![]() Now is their time, their rights, their future. This decade of acceleration must prioritize girls in all their diversity. Girls can and must lead from the front, never being left out or left behind. On this International Day of the Girl, let us continue our collective work to achieve this and to advance the objectives of Our Common Agenda. Under Secretary Brian Nelson: Burmas military regime has committed atrocities including killing innocent civilians, violent repression of. I envision a world where the agency and leadership of adolescent girls is recognized they live in full enjoyment of their rights free of violence and discrimination as equal leaders and members of societies and communities. We need sustainable, well targeted resourcing to those most affected, to ensure safe, healthy, educated, and powerful adolescent girls worldwide. We need disaggregated age and gender-based data to inform policies that directly impact the lives of girls. Meeting these challenges in a world where the risks for girls are more acute than ever requires all stakeholders to take concerted, robust action. Investment in the implementation of girls’ rights remains inadequate, contributing to short-term, siloed approaches that ultimately disadvantage adolescents. Yet poverty, cultural norms and practices, poor infrastructure, violence, and fragility continue to raise barriers. Education that truly equips students for the future is critical to breaking this trend, building agency, equality, voice and power for the world’s women and girls. In fact, based on current rates of progress UN Women estimates that women and girls will not achieve full equality with men and boys for another 300 years. ![]() Yet while there has been progress, substantial challenges remain. Their activism in feminist movements and mobilization for gender equality, including Generation Equality, are a key part of shaping positive, grounded action in their local communities and globally. Inside a trench, all that is visible is just a few feet on either side, ending at the trench walls in front. ![]() Whether in climate, education, mental wellbeing, gender-based violence, or sexual and reproductive health and rights, girls are propelling themselves forward as leaders, advocates and changemakers. Trench Warfare World War I was a war of trenches. In the past ten years I have seen girls’ interests and influence rise in global agendas and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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