Empowering women with health information, educating youth on sexual and reproductive health, ensuring access to healthcare is within reach, and engaging men in maternal, newborn and child health, are all critical ways to curb this trend and save lives

Ensuring women have equal rights to education, land, economic and financial opportunities can help lift even more people, families and communities out of poverty

Girls in developing countries are often the last to eat – which can even mean eating nothing at all. Challenging these norms, and bringing girls and women to the table (literally and figuratively) with opportunities to become food producers, like farmers and fishers, will mean fewer people go hungry, and a more sustainable food system

Improving equal access to land ownership, safe and decent work, as well as diminishing the imbalance in power relations and pay, economies can benefit from the skills, talents and potential of women

Upholding girls’ and women’s right to safety and protection means reducing all forms of gender - based violence, sexual exploitation, trafficking and other abuses. A just world for everyone is violence-free

We all have a role to play to change the world for the better. By raising awareness about these goals and holding our governments accountable, we really can make a difference