Join us for the 2023 IDG Summit and our celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Girls Speak Out!

 

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This year marks the 10th annual celebration of the Girls Speak Out for International Day of the Girl Child, calling for a push for accountability for girls’ rights and investment in girls’ leadership and wellbeing. The Working Group on Girls seeks to listen to girls in all their diversity and intersectional identities, hear what they need as key stakeholders, and partner with them and other stakeholders to advocate for sustainable solutions to the challenges that they face and ensure that their rights are upheld.

The 2023 Girls Speak Out will draw upon the  IDG theme of “Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership & Wellbeing” focusing on action for girls’ rights. This begins with fulfilling, protecting, and respecting girls’ rights. It demands trusting girls’ leadership as equal partners, ensuring there is space for girls to be heard, to participate and co-lead, and respecting their voices, perspectives, and lived realities as decision-makers and as the leaders of today. This also requires investing in and supporting girls’ health and well-being as well as their education and including girls in determining what their needs are while working in an intergenerational effort to meet those specific needs. In listening to Girl Advocates’ perspectives and Girl Activists who are already making change, the overarching questions at this year’s Girls’ Speak Out will be: How are you taking action for girls’ rights? How are you investing in, supporting, and working towards the realization of girls’ rights?

Co-Sponsors:

This year, the Working Group on Girls is delighted to have the IDG Summit Girls Speak Out sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Canada, Perú, and Türkiye to the United Nations, UN Women, UNICEF, and UNFPA.

We also acknowledge the role of UNICEF in setting the International Day of the Girl theme. For more information on the IDG 2023 theme – Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership and Well-being – visit the UNICEF website here.

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