The State of the World’s Girls
The State of the World Girls is a series of research reports released every year for the International Day of the Girl.
This research series seeks to raise the voices of girls and young women across the globe. Each report celebrates the power and potential of girls while highlighting the barriers they face.
The State of the World’s Girls reports have supported two strategic campaigns – Because I am a Girl (2012 – 2017), and Girls Get Equal (2017- 2024).
Each year the research is informed by adolescent girls and youth activists, in all their diversity, across the globe. This ensures the campaign is evidence-based and focuses on the issues that matter most to girls and young women.
The series is an organisation-wide effort to energise the global girls’ rights movements, drive forward the girls’ rights agenda and maximise impact against our global advocacy strategy.
Still We Dream
Girls and young people living through conflict
For our State of the World’s Girls Report this year, we spoke to over 10,000 girls and boys from 10 countries afflicted by conflict.
They told us that conflict robs an entire generation of a normal, happy and safe childhood.
When conflict breaks out, everyday life – going to school, feeling safe, accessing food, water and other essentials and growing up surrounded by family and friends – changes profoundly, sometimes overnight.
Within all this devastation, conflict is felt differently by girls and boys, by young women and young men.
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