Today, on the International Day of the Girl, the United States joins the international community in celebrating the strength, potential, and progress of girls and young women everywhere.
In partnership with USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the Peace Corps, the Department of State is proud to launch an update to the U.S. Global Strategy for Empowering Adolescent Girls. The United States recognizes that a concerted effort to empower adolescent girls globally and address harmful practices that hinder their full and meaningful participation in public and social life is essential to protect girls' human rights and advance U.S. security and foreign policy priorities.
While adolescence is a period of great vulnerability for girls, it also represents an opportunity to develop girls' expertise and leadership in their communities, countries, and on the global stage. Girls continue to teach us how to effectively lead movements, drive social change, contribute to sustainable peace, and help change harmful norms in their families and communities. Today, the United States renews its commitment to supporting and investing in the world's girls and young women, who, as part of the largest population of young people in history, are driving creative solutions to global challenges and moving us toward a more equitable, safe, resilient, and tolerant world. Free future.
