Investing in girls education andkeeping girls in schoolis the critical first step in opening up opportunities for women in the Sahel.
"How do we get more women in politics?" asksGlobalSustainable Development Goal Advocate,AlaaMurabit. Asa UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth, she hasseen first-hand how our experiences and opportunities in childhood shape our future realities and potential:"If, from a young age, a girl or woman does not feel she has power over her own body, it can be a challenge for her to believe that she should run for public office." She also calls fortransforming 'our cultural assumptions about what traits define leadership.'
Not Waiting for Handouts: 5 Stories of Resilience From One of the Worlds Largest Refugee Camps
In Burkina Faso, a new type of school is transforming the habits and mentalities of married men and future husbands.
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In rural Kyrgyzstan, Coding Caravan encourages girls leadership and entrepreneurship
Women and girls represent half of the worlds population and, therefore, also half of its potential. Gender equality, besides being a fundamental human right, is essential to achieve peaceful societies, with full human potential and sustainable development.