Because I am a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2009
The 2009 report focuses on the global economy and warns that failing to send girls to school is costing the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year.
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Because I am a Girl campaign
Because I am a Girl is Plan's campaign to fight gender inequality, promote girls' rights and lift millions of girls out of poverty.
Across the world, girls face the double discrimination of their gender and age, leaving them suffering at the bottom of the social ladder.
Girls are denied access to health services and education, and also face extremely high levels of violence, abuse, and harassment. Join the campaign via Plan's fundraising country websites, opposite.
Girl reports
Plan is producing one girl report each year in the run up to 2015, the target year for the Millennium Development Goals.
The 2009 report focuses on the global economy and warns that failing to send girls to school is costing the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year.
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Because I am a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2008
Special Focus: In the shadow of war. The 2008 report examines the state of girls in conflict situations around the world.
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Because I am a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2007
The first in a series of reports following 135 girls born in 2006 to see how their gender impacts on their lives.
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Case studies
Skills centre helps girls to succeed
See how a Plan skills centre in Thies, Senegal, is giving girls trapped in domestic labour new education and employment opportunities.
Because I am a Girl: Growing up in the Dominican Republic
Meet 3-year-old Maria José - one of 142 girls taking part in a Plan cohort study which looks at their experiences growing up in some of the poorest communities in the world.
