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International Day of the Girl: My Voice, Our Equal Future

The fight for women and girls’ rights has progressed rapidly in the past 25 years, spearheaded by the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: a motion which focused on 12 critical aspects to further the acknowledgment and advancement of such rights. Since then, gender equality has seen a worldwide improvement, with the implementation of new laws protecting women, greater representation of women in the workplace and developments in education, to name but a few. The International Day of the Girl, held annually on 11th October, aims to empower and fulfil girls’ human rights on a global scale, alongside illustrating…