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No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project - Women & Girls
No
Ceilings: The Full Participation Project is an effort led by Hillary Rodham
Clinton at the Clinton Foundation to bring together partner organizations to
evaluate and share the progress women and girls have made in the 20 years since
the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. This new effort will help
chart the path forward to accelerate full participation for women and girls in
the 21st century. The full participation of women and girls is critical to global
progress, development, and security.
Guiding
Principles
We're
all in this together.
Nothing truly happens
unless a life is changed.
No
one has all the answers, but we can bring together the people who can find
them.
Results
you can measure are the only results that matter.
Empowerment
is liberating and life-changing.
There
is always a way to be faster, leaner, and better.
The
greatest good is helping people live their best life story.
Background
In 1995, at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 189
nations agreed to an ambitious Platform for Action that called for the “full
and equal participation of women in political, civil, economic, social and
cultural life.” At this conference, Secretary Clinton memorably declared
that “human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once
and for all.”
Nearly twenty years later, progress has been made. The
gender gap in primary education has closed. More women hold jobs and
serve in public office. In many countries, laws that once permitted
unequal treatment of women and girls have been replaced by laws that recognize
their equality. And a powerful new current of grassroots activism enabled by
new technologies is giving voice to women and girls around the world.
Yet, for all of this progress, women and girls still comprise
the majority of the world’s unhealthy, unfed, and unpaid. Hard-won rights
and legal protections remain elusive on the ground. Advancing the status
of women and girls remains the unfinished business of our time.
The Project
To understand where we need to go, we need to know what we’ve
achieved. The No Ceilings project will work with leading technology
partners to create a comprehensive and accessible global review that will bring
together and widely distribute the best data on the status of women and girls
and their contributions to prosperity and security. Advocates, academics
and leaders will be able to see the gains we’ve made, as well as the gaps that
remain, and access and share this information across platforms in order to
design reforms and drive real change. The project will also feature
stories from women and girls around the world.
Through the No Ceilings project, Secretary Clinton will also outline a 21st century agenda to accelerate full participation for women and girls around the world. The project will convene the private sector, government, civil society, and individuals to accelerate progress toward this agenda.